compress with rar

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abdossamad2003
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compress with rar

Post by abdossamad2003 » 2019/07/15 08:20:35

hi centos expert
is there any program in centos 7 to compress file or directory with rar file (.rar)?

Many thanks

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Re: compress with rar

Post by TrevorH » 2019/07/15 08:34:03

I believe that the rar program (as opposed to unrar) is software that requires a license.

You can find unrar in the nux-dextop repo. I don't know of anyone shipping rar.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
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