mkinne

I’ve developed a mild obsession for the past 24 hours:

the official Peter Bjorn & John “Writer’s Block” game

Download the latest version of RarLab’s rar command for Mac OS X. There isn’t a gui version, but it really isn’t that hard to use from the command line.
After unpacking the tar (Stuffit will do this for you, just doubleclick) you are left with a folder titled “rar” - in this case on my desktop.

Open a terminal (Applications / Utilities / Terminal.app) and navigate to the “rar” folder

cd /Desktop/rar/

You will need to assume the powers of the root user (if you’ve never given your root user a password, more on that here.) Enter the password at the prompt.

su root

Password:

Your command line will now look something like this:

computer-name:/Users/Username root#

Now to install the command “rar” to the /bin directory. Before doing this you need to know your username’s “Short Name” - find that in System Preferences / Accounts / Password (right below the “Name” entry)

install -c -o %shortname% rar /bin

where %shortname% is the Short Name entry found above.

Exit out of root access

exit

To test that the rar command is working, and see the commandline options for it, type rar.

If you ever use the rar command often enough to see an error message asking you to register, all you need to do is run the install command again.