rar files

[westcoast]

Could anyone tell me how to open rar files in Knoppix 7.3?I tried sudo apt-get install rar unrar, but get the message:Package rar is not available, but is referred to by another package.This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, oris only available from another sourceE: Package 'rar' has no installation candidateE: Package 'unrar' has no installation candidate

[klaus2008]

Hi westcoast!

You could download the following packages and try to install them with dpkg.

Unarchiver for .rar files (non-free version) (https://packages.debian.org/de/wheezy/unrar), download package (i386) (http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/u/unrar-nonfree/unrar_4.1.4-1+deb7u1_i386.deb)

non-free rar module for p7zip (https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/p7zip-rar), download package (i386) (http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/p/p7zip-rar/p7zip-rar_9.20.1~ds.1-3_i386.deb)

Archiver for .rar files (https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/rar), download package (i386) (http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/r/rar/rar_4.0.b3-1_i386.deb)

[Werner P. Schulz]

I tried sudo apt-get install rar unrar
Did you use
su
aptitude updatebefore this?

[superman]

Always thought that the Linux port of 7z could unpack .rar files until being pointed out by the post. Gonna add the p7zip-rar to my todo list. Thanks for the heads-up!