Hi, the Rasp Pi don't have the "rar" command to pack RAR archives on Mystic.
I can't find one valid package to install it. I only see "unrar", that i already have. The idea is to update "file_id.diz" on .rar archives.
Thanks.

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On 04 May 2026, Gods69 said the following...

Hi, the Rasp Pi don't have the "rar" command to pack RAR archives on Mystic. I can't find one valid package to install it. I only see
"unrar", that i already have. The idea is to update "file_id.diz" on
.rar archives. Thanks.

rar is nonfree and the author is quite unfriendly to open source. it seems they offer a prebuilt linux version that's not free either, but is only x64

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Hi, the Rasp Pi don't have the "rar" command to pack RAR archives on Mystic. I can't find one valid package to install it. I only see
"unrar", that i already have. The idea is to update "file_id.diz" on
.rar archives. Thanks.

I thought I'd find a good answer on this, because I thought it'd just be sudo apt-get install rar, but evidently, since rar is proprietary software, it's not available in Raspbian or Debian ARM.

(Or at least wasn't 13 years ago)

And, yeah, I'm not seeing any particularly-easy solution for you.

Well, other than converting all .rar files to a different format. Which may not count as "particularly easy".

Hopefully someone else has something more useful to say.

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Re: Re: RAR on Raspberry Pi
By: fusion to Gods69 on Mon May 04 2026 11:50 am

rar is nonfree and the author is quite unfriendly to open source. it seems they offer a prebuilt linux version that's not free either, but is only x64

Interesting.. I've been using Intel x86/64 compatible Linux distros for years, and there is a rar and unrar I've been able to install and use for free on those. I currently have rar and unrar for Linux installed on my Linux Mint 22.3 and KUbuntu 26.04 systems at home.

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Well, other than converting all .rar files to a different format. Which may not count as "particularly easy".

RAR compression algorithm is not open source, so no free util to compress files... I must use a different archive format.

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rar is nonfree and the author is quite unfriendly to open source. it
seems they offer a prebuilt linux version that's not free either, but is only x64

Hi fusion,

You are right,

"The non reverse engineering clause about the RAR compression algorithm and code apply as well for any rewritten version, so no Free Software, royalty free RAR archiver and compressor can be created under current licensing terms. In other words, no open source alternative exist to WinRar's Rar.exe

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Re: Re: RAR on Raspberry Pi
By: Gods69 to Adept on Mon May 04 2026 09:23 pm

RAR compression algorithm is not open source, so no free util to compress files... I must use a different archive format.

7z (7-zip) supports extracting RAR files.. Does 7z not support compressing RAR as well?

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Hey Gods69!

On Mon, May 04 2026 08:42:05 -0500, you wrote:

Hi, the Rasp Pi don't have the "rar" command to pack RAR archives on
Mystic. I can't find one valid package to install it. I only see
"unrar", that i already have. The idea is to update "file_id.diz"
on .rar archives. Thanks.

I believe I use 7zip here for just about everything it can handle.

Regards,
Nick

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On 04 May 2026, Gods69 said the following...

Hi, the Rasp Pi don't have the "rar" command to pack RAR archives on Mystic. I can't find one valid package to install it. I only see
"unrar", that i already have. The idea is to update "file_id.diz" on
.rar archives. Thanks.

sudo apt install rar, then unrar worked for me with Linux Mint.

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7z (7-zip) supports extracting RAR files.. Does 7z not support compressing RAR as well?

No, only extracting RAR files.

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sudo apt install rar, then unrar worked for me with Linux Mint.

This apt install don't work, no package candidate. But with "unrar" is OK
but this is not what i'm looking for.

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Interesting.. I've been using Intel x86/64 compatible Linux distros for years, and there is a rar and unrar I've been able to install and use
for free on those. I currently have rar and unrar for Linux installed
on my Linux Mint 22.3 and KUbuntu 26.04 systems at home.

"Please note no alternative Open Source free RAR archiver utility (rar
creator) is available: UNRAR is available as royalty-free and open source software for all owing extraction of RAR archives both on Linux and Microsoft Windows, but with the clause of not reverse engineering the code for implementing RAR compression which prevents development of royalty free rar archivers & compressors capable to create or add files to said format."

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Re: Re: RAR on Raspberry Pi
By: Gods69 to Nightfox on Tue May 05 2026 08:49 am

Interesting.. I've been using Intel x86/64 compatible Linux distros for
years, and there is a rar and unrar I've been able to install and use for

"Please note no alternative Open Source free RAR archiver utility (rar creator) is available: UNRAR is available as royalty-free and open source software for all owing extraction of RAR archives both on Linux and Microsoft Windows, but with the clause of not reverse engineering the code for implementing RAR compression which prevents development of royalty free rar archivers & compressors capable to create or add files to said format."

Okay, so unrar is available royalty free, but that doesn't explain why rar (the compressor) is available free on Linux?

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Okay, so unrar is available royalty free, but that doesn't explain why
rar (the compressor) is available free on Linux?

It install on my Linux Mint(!), with "apt install rar" and i got this:

RAR 7.00 Copyright (c) 1993-2024 Alexander Roshal 26 Feb 2024
Trial version Type 'rar -?' for help

I don't know the limitations of the trial version.

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Hey Gods69!

On Tue, May 05 2026 01:46:38 -0500, you wrote:

This apt install don't work, no package candidate. But with "unrar"
is OK but this is not what i'm looking for.

Try this?

https://www.win-rar.com/rar-linux-mac.html?&L=0

Click on the "Download" tab at the bottom, and scroll down to the Linux version. It may just be a binary, and it's definitely command line only from what it says on that page.

Regards,
Nick

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Try this?

https://www.win-rar.com/rar-linux-mac.html?&L=0
Click on the "Download" tab at the bottom, and scroll down to the Linux version. It may just be a binary, and it's definitely command line only from what it says on that page.

Thanks, but it's only for Linux x64, not for ARM64 on the Raspberry Pi.

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Re: Re: RAR on Raspberry Pi
By: Gods69 to Nightfox on Tue May 05 2026 07:08 pm

It install on my Linux Mint(!), with "apt install rar" and i got this:

RAR 7.00 Copyright (c) 1993-2024 Alexander Roshal 26 Feb 2024
Trial version Type 'rar -?' for help

I don't know the limitations of the trial version.

I hadn't paid enough attention; mine says "Trial version" too.

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RAR 7.00 Copyright (c) 1993-2024 Alexander Roshal 26 Feb 2024 Trial version Type 'rar -?' for help

I hadn't paid enough attention; mine says "Trial version" too.

Must be like Winrar, 30 days trial.

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Hey Gods69!

On Wed, May 06 2026 01:30:44 -0500, you wrote:

Thanks, but it's only for Linux x64, not for ARM64 on the Raspberry
Pi.

I doubt you'll find anything worthwhile for ARM64 in regards to this. Maybe there's something open source out there you can try to compile, but even that's doubtful.

Maybe your best option would be to get the DOS version and run it in a dos emulator (dosemu/2 or dosbox)?

Regards,
Nick

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Gods69 wrote to Nightfox <=-

Must be like Winrar, 30 days trial.

I'm on day 10,024 of my trial. :)



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Re: Re: RAR on Raspberry Pi
By: Gods69 to Nightfox on Tue May 05 2026 07:08 pm

It install on my Linux Mint(!), with "apt install rar" and i got this

RAR 7.00 Copyright (c) 1993-2024 Alexander Roshal 26 Feb 2024
Trial version Type 'rar -?' for help

I actually paid for a RAR registration key (for WinRAR) in 2010 because I had been using it so much. I found that for Linux, you can copy your rarreg.key file to /etc for rar to pick it up, and that works - Now my rar says it's registered to me.

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Must be like Winrar, 30 days trial.

I'm on day 10,024 of my trial. :)

:-)

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Thanks, but it's only for Linux x64, not for ARM64 on the Raspberry
Pi.

Maybe your best option would be to get the DOS version and run it in a
dos emulator (dosemu/2 or dosbox)?

No way! Must don't pack my files in rar format for the BBS...

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On 07 May 2026, Nightfox said the following...

I actually paid for a RAR registration key (for WinRAR) in 2010 because
I had been using it so much. I found that for Linux, you can copy your rarreg.key file to /etc for rar to pick it up, and that works - Now my
rar says it's registered to me.

And you are certainly correct! I bought it back in like 1997 and never even though the key would work, but I just put in in my /etc folder and it is now registered to me! Jeez...


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I actually paid for a RAR registration key (for WinRAR) in 2010 because
I had been using it so much. I found that for Linux, you can copy your rarreg.key file to /etc for rar to pick it up, and that works - Now my
rar says it's registered to me.

It worked for me too but i have to rename the file from "RarReg.key" to "rarreg.key" to work.

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Gods69 wrote to Accession <=-

No way! Must don't pack my files in rar format for the BBS...

Yeah, LHA is so much more efficient...

I think I still have oddball archiver definitions on my board - don't
even think I have lharc on the system but it's defined... Hope no one
tries to use it!



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Re: Re: RAR on Raspberry Pi
By: Gods69 to Nightfox on Fri May 08 2026 10:31 am

It worked for me too but i have to rename the file from "RarReg.key" to "rarreg.key" to work.

Mine was already lowercase.. Mine was actually inside a .rar archive, which they sent me when I registered it. I initially used it with WinRAR, and with WinRAR, you can simply open that .rar archive and it will find & parse your registration code from that.

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Re: Re: RAR on Raspberry Pi
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Gods69 on Fri May 08 2026 10:16 am

I think I still have oddball archiver definitions on my board - don't even think I have lharc on the system but it's defined... Hope no one tries to use it!

I always enjoyed configuring support for lots of extra things on my BBS. I have definitions for several other archive formats that Synchronet doesn't have built-in. In the 90s, I also used to enjoy having several additional file transfer protocols set up on my BBS (such as MPT/Puma, Bi-Modem, and others), but now, a lot of those are basically irrelevant with dialup; Also, I don't know if there are any modern executables for those, and somehow I doubt the DOS versions would work well for telnet connections.

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No way! Must don't pack my files in rar format for the BBS...

Yeah, LHA is so much more efficient...

I got the same problem with LHA archiver on Raspberry PI... No solution,
only unpack is supported.

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No way! Must don't pack my files in rar format for the BBS...

Yeah, LHA is so much more efficient...

I got the same problem with LHA archiver on Raspberry PI... No solution,
only unpack is supported.

I forget the name now but the default LHA these days is unpack only. That's fine (perhaps better today) unless you need to pack LHA as well.

You can get LHA source from github and build on linux and I suppose RPI as well.

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I forget the name now but the default LHA these days is unpack only. That's fine (perhaps better today) unless you need to pack LHA as well. You can get LHA source from github and build on linux and I suppose RPI
as well.

Is "lhasa" command for unpack, but i use 7z for that.
I have compiled "LHa for Unix", it work, but the "-i" option (ignore directory path) don't work with the "a" command. The edited "file_id.diz"
file goes into the long path (/home/pi/mystic/...) in the archive.

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I forget the name now but the default LHA these days is unpack only.
That's fine (perhaps better today) unless you need to pack LHA as well.
You can get LHA source from github and build on linux and I suppose RPI
as well.

Is "lhasa" command for unpack, but i use 7z for that.

Yes, that's the one I was thinking of.

I have compiled "LHa for Unix", it work, but the "-i" option (ignore directory path) don't work with the "a" command. The edited "file_id.diz" file goes into the long path (/home/pi/mystic/...) in the archive.

Yes, that is an issue for things like packing QWK files.

libarchive also has lha support (to unpack, not to pack).

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Is "lhasa" command for unpack, but i use 7z for that.

Yes, that's the one I was thinking of.

I have compiled "LHa for Unix", it work, but the "-i" option (ignore directory path) don't work with the "a" command. The edited Al> > "file_id.diz
file goes into the long path (/home/pi/mystic/...) in the archive.

Yes, that is an issue for things like packing QWK files.
libarchive also has lha support (to unpack, not to pack).

"LHa for Unix" work now. I've do a little Bash script that remove the path in archive. It use the "basename" and "dirname" commands. Now i use lha for pack and unpack lha archive. The propose of this is to handle Amiga LHA archives.
I must now verify if the modified archive work on Amiga computers...

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