Unrar question

[TheYikes]

Hi. I have a quick question. I have a 4gb compressed file that i need to extract which according to the website will extract to over 13Gb.

My specs are as follows:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 4500 6-Core Processor

GPU: [GeForce RTX 3050 8GB]

MEM: 65710404 kB

I guess my question is, can i pre-compute how long it will take to extract it?

or is it like asking how long is a piece of string

[Snowhog]

It won't take long.

[TheYikes]

That's what i thought but I'm running the default> Right Click> Extract here. But so far 57 minutes. Is there any particular unrar tool I should be using? Maybe 7zip or peazip?

[Snowhog]

Depends on what was used to compress the file. Do you know?

[TheYikes]

oh i'm running kubuntu 24.10

[TheYikes]

Sorry SnowHog i don't know what app was used to compress the archive.

[Snowhog]

Sorry SnowHog i don't know what app was used to compress the archive.

What is the filename extension?

[TheYikes]

.rar. I can't really figure it out, I have a virtualbox Win10 pro. I've allocated 6 Cores and 32gb ram. it extracted in 12 minutes. I knwo what you're thinking, do it on the Virtual Box but I'd prefer to do it on Kubuntu. I'm just fussy!

[Snowhog]

Try uncompressing the file from the command line.

[TheYikes]

That thought did occur to me but again I'm left asking which tool to use? 7zip, unrar or bsdtar? Is there one that displays the progress from a terminal? Sorry for all the questions.

[TheYikes]

okay. i looked at the man page. I found unrar x -o+ I'll have to leave trying it until tomorrow. I have an early start but I promise I'll get back to you you.