Compiling unrar on DietPi for ARM

11-Sep-2016

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I've recently had to build the 'unrar' utility on my Odroid XU4 after installing DietPi on it. I know it is available on the non-free repository and can be installed using apt-get, but that didn't seem to have the latest version so I decided to build it from source instead. Turns out it's quite easy.

First a few prerequisites need to be installed...

Commands

apt-get install make g++

Then download, extract the sources, compile and install it.

Commands

wget http://www.rarlab.com/rar/unrarsrc-5.4.5.tar.gz

tar -xvzf unrarsrc-5.4.5.tar.gz

cd unrar

make

install -v -m755 unrar /usr/bin

-i

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