Installing (and using) RAR products on a Macbook

Afriend of mine shared some .rar files recently and, if you don’t already know, you can’t open them directly on an Apple Mac. Additionally, you can’t install a graphical version of WinRAR like you would on a Windows machine. The only available option is a command-line version of the program. Installing RAR on Macbook is not easy but I really didn’t want to use another extraction tool. I get this opportunity to challenge myself to something new, and after some researching (a.k.a Googling) I came to a solution that I will share step by step with you. <ol> <li>Go to <a href="https://www.win-rar.com/download.html?L=0" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Winrar</a> from Rarlab and download the program to your computer (a .tar file)</li> <li>Extract the contents of the .tar file to your computer (I did mine in the Downloads folder). It will create a “rar” folder</li> <li>Open a terminal window and navigate to the folder you extracted the program (my case was /downloads/rar/)</li> </ol> <a href="https://medium.com/@giulianoputtinifilippini/installing-and-using-rar-products-on-a-macbook-87fd2a374522">Visit Now</a>