{"id":3216,"date":"2010-01-13T13:29:56","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T21:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=3216"},"modified":"2010-01-18T00:09:34","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T08:09:34","slug":"dealing-with-rars-in-red-hat-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=3216","title":{"rendered":"Dealing with <abbr title=\"Roshal Archive\" style=\"font-size: inherit ; letter-spacing: inherit ;\">RAR<\/abbr>s in Red Hat Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When one installs rar in Red Hat Linux, <blockquote><code>yum install rar<\/code><\/blockquote> and then attempts to run <code>rar<\/code> or <code>unrar<\/code>, one is likely to get a failure with the diagnostic <blockquote><tt>rar: \/lib\/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7' not found (required by rar)<\/tt><\/blockquote><\/p> <p>In various fora, the recommendation has been to install a newer version of glibc or somesuch. <strong>Such updating would be a signally <em>bad<\/em> idea<\/strong>, likely to disable the operating system.<\/p> <p><em>Instead<\/em>, note that the <code>rar<\/code> package came with <code>rar_static<\/code>.  Use that in place of <code>rar<\/code>. (If it makes you happier, you could delete <code>rar<\/code> and rename or alias <code>rar_static<\/code> with <q>rar<\/q>.)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When one installs rar in Red Hat Linux, yum install rar and then attempts to run rar or unrar, one is likely to get a failure with the diagnostic rar: \/lib\/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7' not found (required by rar) In various fora, the recommendation has been to install a newer version of glibc or somesuch. Such [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,4],"tags":[753,72,752,140,143,142],"class_list":["post-3216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-technology","category-public","tag-archives","tag-linux","tag-rar","tag-red-hat","tag-redhat","tag-rhel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}