Installing RAR/UNRAR - "Package rar is unavailable"

[AdrianTM]

Wow, a guy tries to help, makes it clear he's not at his actual machine to check, and gets crap on for his efforts. Nice one. Heaven forbid I was trying to help.

Next time don't try to help. There is no try. Do, or do not.

Yoda.

Kidding, but I don't think you "got crap on your effort" people simply showed that you were wrong, if you consider that a problem then next time be right.

[vmclark]

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Sorry... Must be the super-cow powers finally rubbing off on me.
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Shouldn't that be super-cat powers

"TMTOWTDI", sounds like something a perl programmer would say.

There's good info here on both "sides of the fence"; apt-get/aptitude.

[Lavene]

Wow, a guy tries to help, makes it clear he's not at his actual machine to check, and gets crap on for his efforts. Nice one. Heaven forbid I was trying to help.

Where is the crap? I see a bit of joking about the various ways to establish where a package actually is but I don't see any crap.

Shouldn't that be super-cat powers

Look at it... does it look super to you?

[SunSpyda]

OK, when I installed unrar on Etch, I just typed this....

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apt-get install unrar

Obviously you would use sudo if you weren't root.
Doesn't that do the job?

[Lavene]

OK, when I installed unrar on Etch, I just typed this....

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apt-get install unrar

Obviously you would use sudo if you weren't root.
Doesn't that do the job?

Yes. To sum up the thread (which admittedly got a bit side tracked): You can install the official shareware version of unrar if you have non-free in your /etc/apt/sources.list.

[aincanis]

No it doesn't. I'm sorry to wake the thread after so many years but I indeed have the same problem as OP, only that neither

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apt-get install unrar

nor

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apt-get install rar

work, although I just read through this entire thread and set my sources to contrib and non-free. Instead I get

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# apt-get install unrar
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package unrar is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'unrar' has no installation candidate

Has the unrar package been changed or removed entirely recently?

[Soapm]

As was suggested to the OP many years ago, post your source list if you want to ask a question of this type. I know you said you added non-free, but until we know what that means then it's pointless to go any further.

[aincanis]

Here you go:

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deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy-updates main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free

[thanatos_incarnate]

As you can see here, the package exists.
I don't know what might have gone wrong in your setup. You might have used apt pinning
or there might be other entries you have in the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ directory that
prevent unrar's installation.

EDIT: I doubt it, but it could also be that the package is missing from your mirror.
Try another one?

[kmathern]

... I just read through this entire thread and set my sources to contrib and non-free. ...

Did you run a 'apt-get update' after adding the contrib & non-free components to your sources ?

[thanatos_incarnate]

... I just read through this entire thread and set my sources to contrib and non-free. ...

Did you run a 'apt-get update' after adding the contrib & non-free components to your sources ?

lol, seriously? But yes, that would explain it.