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.
- Go to Winrar from Rarlab and download the program to your computer (a .tar file)
- Extract the contents of the .tar file to your computer (I did mine in the Downloads folder). It will create a “rar” folder
- Open a terminal window and navigate to the folder you extracted the program (my case was /downloads/rar/)