On Wednesday 14 September 2011 06:00:53 pm RiverWind wrote: > Hey There, > > Whilst trying to get and install the rar file compression utility, > I encountered a bit of an interesting obstacle. It seems that this > file is either obsolete and hence no longer supported by Linux, or > something else of that nature has made this application unavailable > via mainstream measures. I have several radio plays, books and > documentaries that have been compressed using rar, so I therefore > don't quite know what to do in order to process these particular > files so they can be played by my media utilities. Here is the > error message that the "apt" command returned. > > Quote On: > apt-get install rar > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Package rar 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 'rar' has no installation candidate > Quote Off:
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