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Rar is currently available through PECL
<a href="http://pecl.php.net/package/rar" class="link external">» http://pecl.php.net/package/rar</a>.
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Also you can use the PECL installer to install the Rar extension,
using the following command: <strong class="command">pecl -v install rar</strong>.
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You can always download the <var class="filename">tar.gz</var> package and install Rar by hand:
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<p><strong>Example #1 Rar installation</strong></p>
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<div class="shellcode"><pre class="shellcode">gunzip rar-xxx.tgz
tar -xvf rar-xxx.tar
cd rar-xxx
phpize
./configure && make && make install</pre>
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Windows users will enable <var class="filename">php_rar.dll</var> inside
of <var class="filename">php.ini</var> in order to use these functions.
A <acronym title="Dynamic Link Library">DLL</acronym> for this
<acronym title="PHP Extension and Application Repository">PECL</acronym> extension is currently unavailable. See also the
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