While your query could refer to a few different things, I am answering for the most likely interpretation: you are looking for help (like linuxsfiles98.rar ) on a Linux system.

: If the "long piece" refers to the extraction taking too much time, this is often a disk bottleneck rather than a CPU issue. Using a terminal tool like unrar is typically faster than GUI tools like Ark.

PeaZip free archiver utility, open extract RAR TAR ZIP files

It could also mean you're searching for a specific historical archive of Linux files from around 1998 or a specific "long piece" of writing related to Linux history, but these are less common requests. Handling Large Multi-part RARs on Linux

: If unrar fails, try PeaZip or the latest version of 7-Zip , both of which handle large, spanned archives well. Summary of Commands Install unrar sudo apt update && sudo apt install unrar Extract all parts unrar x linuxsfiles98.rar List contents unrar l linuxsfiles98.rar

: Most Linux distros don't include RAR support out of the box because it is proprietary. Ubuntu/Debian/Mint : sudo apt install unrar Arch Linux : sudo pacman -S unrar

: You only need to run the command on the first file in the sequence. The program will automatically find the rest of the pieces and join them.