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How to run WinRAR on Ubuntu (the original Windows WinRAR, not UnRAR)?

Can you do it with Wine somehow? I think I tried that with 14.04 but failed, maybe it's possible with 16.04 or should be possible in 18.04?

I desire to work with WinRAR regularly, to extract zips and rars after a right mouse click and "unrar this file to / here" or "unzip this file to / here".

In an answer, please detail on a workaround to achieve that (as working with WinRAR that way, is actually part of the problem).

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    The right click functionality won't work properly; this is because of the limitations of the difference between Windows and LInux context menus. BUt it does look like you can run WinRAR within Wine though I don't have any statistics about whether the versions in the Ubuntu Repos of Wine will work well or not.
    – Thomas Ward
    Feb 20, 2018 at 16:55
  • First getting into Wine, then unrar/unzip with WinRAR? Oh that sounds quite depressing. Is there no good way to make it more comfortable? Some "wine-application" shortcut from somewhere? Feb 20, 2018 at 16:57
  • I don't know enough about the context menus in the right-click menu because of the varying file explorers in the individual desktop environments to give you a clear answer or not. Ideally though you could extract zips and rars already by installing the unrar tool and unzip tool from the repos, which adds support with the built-in tools. There's really no need for WinRAR directly, though, what with the opensource tools that exist now for it... just saying.
    – Thomas Ward
    Feb 20, 2018 at 17:00
  • When i right-click on a rar file, i get 2 options, Extract here and Extract to. If you don't get it, you may want to install 7zip-full with sudo apt-get install p7zip-full and test later.
    – bistoco
    Feb 20, 2018 at 18:11
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    @user9303970, @ThomasWard is correct, i gave you the behavior of 7zip package. Opinion: even when wine provides some compatibility with windows software on linux, it's always better to move away from them using native software, usually better (with exceptions) and with less issues.
    – bistoco
    Feb 20, 2018 at 23:46

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