"In computing, RAR is a proprietary archive file format that supports data compression, error recovery, and file spanning. It was developed by a Russian software engineer, Eugene Roshal (hence the name RAR: Roshal ARchive), and is currently licensed by win.rar GmbH as well as being an acronym for 'Rational And Reliable'."
If you need to uncompress a .rar archive in Ubuntu, you can download a program called unrar. In Ubuntu, you can install unrar by opening a terminal and typing
sudo apt-get install unrar
Then read the instructions by typing man unrar.
[UPDATE: to install unrar in Ubuntu you need the Multiverse Repository enabled.]
Basically, to unrar a file in Ubuntu, just navigate to the directory where your rar archive is and type
unrar x [filename.rar]
replacing [filename.rar] with the name of your rar archive.
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