

Of course, if you have a choice in the matter, I recommend migrating your archives to a more portable and better supported archive format. The rarfile module is basically nothing more than a wrapper around subprocess anyway. You can just use the subprocess module: import subprocess If you are just doing extract_all then there is no need to use a rarfile module, though. Note the use of rf.extract_all(), not rf.rarfile.extract_all(). Then your code should look something like this: import rarfile Some newer RAR files will not extract with bsdtar. Note that bsdtar does not have the same level of support for RAR files that Unrar does. People can use WinRAR on Windows 11, 10, XP, Vista 7, 8, and 9. The tool is compatible with Android, iOS, Linux, and Microsoft Windows electronics on both 32-bit and 64-bit equipment. For example on Debian-based systems (this includes Ubuntu) run, sudo apt install bsdtar Released in 1995, WinRAR is a staple compression and extraction software that users have on their devices. Do not install these with Pip, you have to install these with your Linux package manager (or install them yourself, if you think that the computer's time is more valuable than your time). Your only two choices are bsdtar or unrar. In order to get the rarfile Python module to work, you have to also install a supported tool for extracting RAR files. Support for RAR files in general is quite poor, this experience is par for the course.
