How to extract xyz.arc file in ubuntu?

12.04 archive extract

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Solution 1

You must install nomarch

sudo apt-get install nomarch

after installation

nomarch -p arhive.arc

Also you have man pages for additional options

man nomarch

Solution 2

Have a look to unar, it says that unar is an unarchiver for a variety of file formats. (done a apt-cache search unarc and get back this entry on a Ubuntu 13.10).

Solution 3

nomarch and unar could not recognize the ARC file that my customer sent me. Probably they operate only on older versions of the archive format.

FreeARC could extract the file though. It is not a Ubuntu package, but just unpack the Linux archive somewhere in your home folder and run "make install". Then you can use "unarc x archive.arc" to attack and conquer the ARC file.

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Dixit Singla

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Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

Dixit Singla over 1 year

How do I extract a .ARC file in Ubuntu?
Dixit Singla about 10 years

On executing this command getting this error " nomarch: bad first header - not a .arc file? "
2707974 about 10 years

Maybe is archive demaged.
Dixit Singla about 10 years

Okay!! Is there any other way to extract this file?? I need it file urgently!
2707974 about 10 years

Try with unar. sudo apt-get install unar.
littlegreen over 9 years

Only FreeARC worked for me; see my answer below. Cheers.
DBedrenko over 5 years

Yep, same for me. nomarch didn't work, but the official FreeARC binary did. Here's a link to it: web.archive.org/web/20140702144430if_/http://freearc.org/…
mirh about 4 years

Take note that in 2020 you need quite some older dependencies to get even just unarc to run (and I gave up for the GUI to work at all tbh). You are probably better off running FreeArc inside wine, or using PeaZip.