Where SHORTNAME is the short version of your user name. Once in that folder, type the following command ❯ sudo install -c -o SHORTNAME unrar /usr/local/bin If you don’t know how, the easiest way is to type ‘cd ’ with a space after it, then drag the rar folder onto the terminal window - Terminal will type out the path to the folder for you. To install unrar, open the Terminal application (Applications/Utilties/Terminal) and navigate to the rar folder. Luckily unrar is freeware and you can just use it. Rar is a demo that expires after 40 days, so don’t bother installing it unless you are planning to buy the licence (instructions are in one of the html files in the folder). The executables are the command line rar and unrar, plus a support file used for installation. If you double click on it, OS X will unarchive and create a folder called rar, which contains three “Unix executable files”, and a bunch of text / html files. Downloading rar and unrarĪfter you download rar from RarLab’s download section, you should find a file called something like rarosx-3.8.0.tar.gz depending on the version you downloaded.

Rarlab offers the two freeware command line tools. rar archives you still need a third party app such as UnRarX, Zipeg, or Stuffit.

Unrar