sudo apt-get install unrar # unrar-free?

unrar v "the name.rar"

unrar e myfile.rar # extract into the current directory unrar e myfile.rar /tmp # extract to the target directory

if you gave it a password and you forgot it (this just uses unrar over and over with brute force)...

sudo su

apt-get install libxml2-dev build-essential # prerequisites to build from source

http://rarcrack.sourceforge.net/ # download link in there somewhere

tar -xjf rarcrack-0.2.tar.bz2

cd rarcrack-0.2

make # ignore all of the warnings gcc -pthread rarcrack.c xml2-config --libs --cflags -O2 -o rarcrack rarcrack.c: In function ‘crack_thread’: rarcrack.c:206:32: warning: comparison between pointer and integer [enabled by default] rarcrack.c: In function ‘init’: rarcrack.c:283:6: warning: format ‘%s’ expects argument of type ‘char ’, but argument 3 has type ‘char ()[300]’ [-Wformat] rarcrack.c:317:9: warning: ignoring return value of ‘fscanf’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result] rarcrack.c: In function ‘crack_thread’: rarcrack.c:205:11: warning: ignoring return value of ‘fgets’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result]

make install install -s rarcrack /usr/bin mkdir -p /usr/share/doc/rarcrack chmod 755 /usr/share/doc/rarcrack install -m 644 -t /usr/share/doc/rarcrack CHANGELOG LICENSE README README.html RELEASE_NOTES

rarcrack test.rar --type rar # this autogenerates test.rar.xml where the status of successful brute force passwords are saved