missing unrar in the new OS6

[s4mb4]

enable SSH.
log in and add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian squeeze main non-free

save it and then run apt-get update

then just apt-get install unrar

[mdgm-ntgr]

Why would you install squeeze packages on ReadyNAS OS 6?

ReadyNAS OS 6 uses Debian Wheezy/Sid. I'd probably install the Wheezy package

[s4mb4]

because the non-free version on unrar was available on squeeze. does the non-free version of unrar exist anywhere on Wheezy?

[s4mb4]

shoot, yep it does...

[s4mb4]

Do this instead.....

enable SSH.
log in and add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy main non-free

save it and then run apt-get update

then just apt-get install unrar

[Dave_Ams]

All,

What version of Debian is 6.3.5 using, is it still on Wheezy? I would like to add the non-free unrar.

Regards,

David

[Dave_Ams]

All,

I attempted the procedure above to update unrar but I get the following message:

oot@penguin-nas:~# apt-get install unrar
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  unrar
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 60 not upgraded.
Need to get 109 kB of archives.
After this operation, 245 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/non-free unrar amd64 1:4.1.4-1 [109 kB]
Fetched 109 kB in 0s (129 kB/s)
debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
Selecting previously unselected package unrar.
(Reading database ... 18245 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking unrar (from .../unrar_1%3a4.1.4-1_amd64.deb) ...

Unrar is still the same version as before:

root@penguin-nas:~# unrar
UNRAR 4.10 freeware      Copyright (c) 1993-2012 Alexander Roshal

On this system I'm running 6.4.0-T112

Can you also install the .deb unrar package thru the webgui?

[mdgm-ntgr]

# dpkg -l | grep unrar

[Dave_Ams]

All,

Sorry for not reacting any sooner, I found an other way to install the latest unrar:

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/open-rar-file-or-extract-rar-files-under-linux-or-unix/

# cd /tmp

Download from rarlab, check the version first

# wget http://www.rarlab.com/rar/rarlinux-x64-5.3.b4.tar.gz

Unpack

# tar -zxvf rarlinux-*.tar.gz

# cd rar

Check that this version runs and is the one you want (adding ./ before the command makes sure you execute the version in your current directory.
#./unrar

Backup your current rar and unrar versions:

# mv /usr/local/bin/unrar /usr/local/bin/unrar-old

# mv /usr/local/bin/rar /usr/local/bin/rar-old

Copy new version to bin

# cp rar unrar /usr/local/bin

# cd ~

You should now be able to run the new version from anywhere

# unrar

The reason I needed a new version was that unrar crashed as soon as I started to unpack the large multipart rar files I downloaded of the internet. A quick test this morning showed that the newly downloaded version works better.

Dave