Problem installing rar and unrar

Linux and Unix-Like Fedora
1

Good day all,

I am trying to install rar and unrar on fedora 16.

In terminal root, when I try to do :
# cp rar unrar /bin

I get the following error message:
cp: cannot stat `rar': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `unrar': No such file or directory

can anyone please suggest something to help.
-peter

2

I suspect it means what it says -- they're not in the same folder as your terminal is looking inside.

Where do you have these files?

3

hi Corona,

Please keep in mind I am extremely new to Linux.
I made to attempts to get it to work , without success.

1) Firstly, I tried to be in "bin" folder:

[root@peterpc bin]# cp rar unrar /bin
cp: cannot stat `rar': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `unrar': No such file or directory

2) In the 2nd attempt ,I also tried to be in the "rar" folder :
[peter@peterpc rar]$ cp rar unrar /bin
cp: cannot create regular file `/bin/rar': Permission denied
cp: cannot create regular file `/bin/unrar': Permission denied

can you suggest anything?

appreciate the help,
peter

4

You need to be in whatever folder rar and unrar are in. I don't know where that is, not being able to see your computer from here.

Surely it's somewhere under your home folder, though. Try this:

cd ~/
find . -type f -name rar

That will hunt for any file named 'rar' anywhere inside you home directory or any of its subfolders.

~/ is short-form for your home-folder, so it'd amount to cd /home/myusername

5

would you recommend:

$ sudo cp rar unrar /bin

since this may give me permission?

6

If you have found the files, then yes.

Though I might suggest /usr/bin instead of /bin. /bin sometimes isn't in a normal user's PATH so could be annoying to use.

7

thanks. rar works.

I am now looking for the extracted files. The name of the file that was extracted is "Math43.iso"

Without success ,I am trying to use the "find" command to locate it :
$ find . -type f -name Math

thanks
-peter

---------- Post updated at 07:48 PM ---------- Previous update was at 07:47 PM ----------

correction :

$ find . -type f -name Math43

---------- Post updated at 09:35 PM ---------- Previous update was at 07:48 PM ----------

please ignore this last messgae , since my .rar file was corrupt.

thanks for the help

8

In any case, find doesn't work that way. You were looking for the exact name there. Find supports wildcards, as long as they are in single quotes.

find ~/ -name '*.iso'