How to Install and Uninstall unrar-free Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: April 27,2024

1. Install "unrar-free" package

This is a short guide on how to install unrar-free on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "unrar-free" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall unrar-free on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                unrar-free
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the unrar-free package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: unrar-free
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:0.0.1+cvs20140707-4
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu)
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 74
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15)
Recommends: unar
Suggests: pike8.0 | pike7.8 | pike7.6 | pike
Conflicts: unrar-nonfree (<< 1:3.7.8-1)
Filename: pool/universe/u/unrar-free/unrar-free_0.0.1+cvs20140707-4_amd64.deb
Size: 24776
MD5sum: a663ca9d832c03d9099bbafed57d8496
SHA1: 4edc263c4216ae940efa19de465daa4e61cec1c1
SHA256: 0351a70582c20fadd5b2ca9c7998421c6c0ba6635f90f98d37a68ced74cf96f8
SHA512: 9b225d8e947df199d569f149b57306f2ce12e970cefa1b9f285b938ab11985c7c0cf5887fa83ea4278a57c79d4f9f89fad8b67113c85be7488b056119696cbcd
Homepage: https://gna.org/projects/unrar/
Description-en: Unarchiver for .rar files
Unrar can extract files from .rar archives. Can't handle some archives in
the RAR 3.0 format natively. Package "unar" can be used to extract those
archives if installed.
Description-md5: ec1032a402cf223268dffa022fd9536b