rar is a command line utitility used to create RAR archives in Linux. Since the source code isn't available, this SlackBuild packages the official binary. NOTE: This is only an evaluation copy. If you wish to use RAR after the evaluation period of 40 days, you will have to purchase its license: http://www.rarlab.com/registration.php Recommended, but not scrictly required: unrar (available on SlackBuilds.org) Also note that this is an i386 binary - it won't work on pure x86_64 systems.