Comments on Ubuntu Unleashed: Howto: Crack Rar, 7z, and zip files with RarCrack ...

if that doesnt work try fcrackzip, sudo apt-get in...

2008-04-18T15:19:00.000-07:00

if that doesnt work try fcrackzip, sudo apt-get install fcrackzip
note: its just for zip files not just rar, here is some info from the repo:
password cracker for zip archives
fcrackzip is a fast password cracker partly written in assembler.
It is able to crack password protected zip files with brute
force or dictionary based attacks, optionally testing with
unzip its results.

It can also crack cpmask'ed images.

Homepage: http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/fcrackzip.html

do sudo chown youruser:youruser boo.zip and then s...

2008-04-18T15:14:00.000-07:00

do sudo chown youruser:youruser boo.zip and then sudo chmod 755 boo.zip to fix the permissions

Help! I really appreciate the posts so far but I'm...

2008-04-18T15:12:00.000-07:00

Help! I really appreciate the posts so far but I'm stuck. Any ideas why I am getting this? I do have the correct path and file name. Rarcrack worked on the test files also. Thanks...

ERROR: The specified file (boo.zip) is not exists or you don't have a right permissions!

In ubuntu you need to have the libxml2-dev package...

2008-04-18T06:38:00.000-07:00

In ubuntu you need to have the libxml2-dev package installed as well. You won't get any errors if that's installed as a dependency.

Usually if make gives you an error in ubuntu, it's because the source package of a dependency is not installed. look at the files mentioned in the error for clues. In the case of rarcrack it said something about libxml/something.h which is obviously a c++ header file for libxml. When you check synaptic it says that libxml2 is already installed so when I tried installing libxml2-dev and recompiling it worked. Furthermore the README says it needs libxml2, but when compiling that means you need the source code files of the libxml2 which in ubuntu are the libxml2-dev packages

me too

2008-04-18T01:02:00.000-07:00

me too

For some reason whenever I get to the compilation ...

2008-04-17T04:42:00.000-07:00

For some reason whenever I get to the compilation step, I get all sorts of errors. Do I not have the correct libraries?

It looks like lifehacker.com gave me some props fo...

2008-04-16T07:43:00.000-07:00

It looks like lifehacker.com gave me some props for this here:
http://lifehacker.com/380365/rarcrack-opens-protected-archives-without-passwords
Thanks!

Official webpage:http://rarcrack.sourceforge.net/

2008-04-13T18:14:00.000-07:00

Official webpage:

http://rarcrack.sourceforge.net/

wow, excellent post! I've been searching hi and l...

2008-04-13T10:30:00.000-07:00

wow, excellent post! I've been searching hi and low for a rar cracker. I'll be trying this the next time I run into one of those pests! Many thanks!