unrar: An error occurred while accessing the archive

Question

I can't seem to unrar files. When I right-click and hit "extract here" it throws up an error message: "An error occurred while accessing the archive". I have unrar installed. I also tried 7-zip rar. No luck. Can someone help me?

Solution

1. Open a terminal and do:

   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install unrar
   

2. Now you can actually extract it with:

   unrar x -r /path/to/rarfile.rar
   

Comments

[XanthReborn]

I'm still having issues. The first rar I tried to unrar seemed to extract OK but then I didn't see any files extracted into the folder. The second one I tried to unrar threw up more error messages. Here's a pastebin of my terminal. pastebin.com/z5dVdGcy

[XanthReborn]

I followed the instructions on there and it worked! Thank you!

[David Foerster]

@XanthReborn: Where did you look for the files listed in the output of unrar?

[XanthReborn]

I used: 'unrar e UBW.rar' and it worked

[Iman Mohamadi]

My case was because the split archive files where password protected but Ubuntu default unarchiver did not asked for password and failed to extract the files.