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How to Add RAR support to CentOS 4 (Red Hat Enterprise)

Today I had to install rar support to unpack a big file. I’ve tried to download an archive from rarlab site and even unpacked it. Everything seemed to be nice, but when I tried to unpack a file, I faced the following error:
unrar: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4′ not found (required by unrar) . I’ve searched for an updated version of glibc (when I started to look at linux servers I’ve uninstalled glibc without dependences and I don’t recommend to repeat it) and there was no such one for CentOS (RHEL4). I’ve found the solution at http://www.cyberciti.biz/ – a very nice site for Linux administrators. Here it is:

wget http://dag.wieers.com/packages/unrar/unrar-3.6.2-1.el4.rf.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh unrar-3.6.2-1.el4.rf.i386.rpm
unrar e rarfile.rar

This worked for me and it was the easiest way to install rar support on CentOS. Just do this as root and rar files will become accessible to you.

  1. jorge
    June 15th, 2010 at 18:18 | #1

    Thanks,

  2. LeN
    June 17th, 2010 at 14:07 | #2

    Thenks!

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