Unable to extract extracting .rar file?

Question

I have installed unrar as:

sudo apt-get install unrar

I have a "html.rar" file.Now i am trying to extract using command :

unrar x html.rar

But it shows an error as given below:

html.rar is not RAR archive
No files to extract

How to overcome from such problem ?

"html.rar is not RAR archive" What is it and where did you get it ? unrar is working fine for me. — Mark Kirby, Dec 22 '15 at 17:28
when i use to unpack html.rar by using unrar x html.rar ,it shows error as : — Rajender Rajan, Dec 22 '15 at 17:28
Either archive is corrupted, it can be checked unrar t file.rar
or rar is password protected unrar e -pYOURPASS file.rar — Achu, Dec 22 '15 at 17:28
unrar x html.rar is not working and its not password protected.. — Rajender Rajan, Dec 22 '15 at 17:29
@RajenderRajan can you post the out put of unrar t html.rar — Achu, Dec 22 '15 at 17:31
Possible duplicate of Why is terminal telling me that my .rar file is not a RAR archive? — Mike, Dec 22 '15 at 17:33

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 22 '15 at 17:40

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First check the *.rar with file command to determine the type of file.

file html.rar

Make sure your file is properly downloaded, sometimes it may be unfinished download.

Then check the size of the file by executing

ls -lh

If it is an empty file then redownload it. Or check with

unrar t html.rar

-t : Test archive files

Hope it helps.

answered Dec 22 '15 at 17:40

Hussain K

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running a test showed "All OK"... when extracting the top of the log said "permission denied" it was easy to miss. – Ray Foss Jun 24 '17 at 10:11
permission denied was my issue too. – Tisch Dec 18 '17 at 21:00

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