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The file was downloaded online am I am trying to get a PS2 emulator working on my computer for fun. All I need to do now is learn how to open this rar file.

File output of:

superpajamarama@:~$ file "/home/superpajamarama/Desktop/PS2 Games/Futurama.rar"
/home/superpajamarama/Desktop/PS2 Games/Futurama.rar: empty

This is what the terminal says when trying to unrar:

superpajamarama:~$ unrar x /home/superpajamarama/Desktop/PS2 Games/Futurama.rar

UNRAR 5.00 beta 8 freeware      Copyright (c) 1993-2013 Alexander Roshal

/home/superpajamarama/Desktop/PS2 Games/Futurama.rar is not RAR archive
No files to extract
terdon
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Superpajamarama
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2 Answers2

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Your file is empty. Probably an unfinished download or just the wrong file altogether. You will need to go back to wherever you got it from and try to download it again.

In future, remember that you can always use the file command to determine the file type of a file. In this particular case, you would also have been able to see that its empty by running 

ls -lh  "/home/superpajamarama/Desktop/PS2 Games/Futurama.rar"

which would have shown an 0 byte sized file.

terdon
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Actually two things comes to my mind:

Either archive is corrupted, it can be checked

unrar t file.rar

or rar is password protected

unrar e -pYOURPASS file.rar

pgr
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