Just a very quick post for new comers to Ubuntu who is looking for a way to install rar extension. RAR extension (should be php5-rar) is not available on Ubuntu official, apt-get install php5-rar won't work, not sure why. If you want to install it then you can use PECL from PEAR instead, as following:
$ sudo apt-get install php5-dev php-pear g++
$ sudo pecl install rar
Then you will need to edit php.ini to include rar.so, it should be placed somewhere in /etc/php5. You should be able to install any extension on PECL using pecl command too. But anyway, package from Ubuntu repository is recommended.
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