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RAR archives can't extract [duplicate]

I tried to extract a RAR archive and I couldn't. I have Ubuntu 12.04 installed. I could extract zip files but not RAR. What can I do? Is there a good free extracter for Ubuntu 12.04?
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Possible to extract locked archives? [closed]

I would like to bypass the lock on a .rar archive, is this possible?
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How to make archive manager recognize Cyrillic chracters?

I have some files with Russian titles that are archived in a .rar file . When extracting them with the archive manager in Lubuntu, their names contained odd characters and the comment(invalid ...
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Extract only the contents of an archived directory from within an archive

The Situation I am extracting a CMS from drupal-7.15.tar.gz to /var/www. When extracted normally (with 'tar -xvzf filename.tar.gz') the files end up in /var/www/drupal-7.15/ The Goal I want the ...
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Is there an 'Extract to…' context menu option for the Archive Manager application in Nautilus?

I was wondering if there was an easy way to add an 'Extract to...' option in the context menu for the Archive Manager in Nautilus? 'Extract here' is fine a lot of the time but I'm often working with ...
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Open password protected rar archieve just keeps asking for the password but won't open halfway thru [closed]

I downloaded a rar archieve with a quite big file inside, and right-click, choose Extract here and enter the password. It starts extraxting, and I can see the file and view parts of it (since the ...