> unrar: because I need a way to extract rar files when clients send me such.
If there is a free alternative to it, I would use it but so far I haven't
found one.
Relevant FOSS packages in Debian:
Package: unrar-free
Description-en: Unarchiver for .rar files
Unrar can extract files from .rar archives. Can't handle some archives in the
RAR 3.0 format natively. Package "unar" can be used to extract those archives
if installed.
Package: unar
Description-en: Unarchiver for a variety of file formats
The Unarchiver is an archive unpacker program with support for the popular
zip, RAR, 7z, tar, gzip, bzip2, LZMA, XZ, CAB, MSI, NSIS, EXE, ISO, BIN, and
split file formats, as well as the old Stuffit, Stuffit X, DiskDouble,
Compact Pro, Packit, cpio, compress (.Z), ARJ, ARC, PAK, ACE, ZOO, LZH, ADF,
DMS, LZX, PowerPacker, LBR, Squeeze, Crunch, and other old formats.
.
This package contains the lsar tool which lists the contents of archives and
the unar tool which extracts those contents.
