I downloaded a rar. file of gradients I want to use with illustrator how do I install it so I can use it?

Question

I downloaded a rar. file of gradients how do I install it in illustrator to use it.

Answer 1

have you expanded it to look at the contents?
actually, let's start at the beginning just in case. do you know what a .rar file is? it's like a .zip, a container for compressing a file or folder. to open it, you need WinRAR or some other OS-specific app.
once you've done that, you can look at/make use of what it contains. a file for gradients is probably a swatch file, which could have the extension .ai or .ase. you open one of those from the swatch palette menu (Open Swatch Library > Other Library).
it might be a graphic style library, which you'd open similarly from the graphic styles palette (but it's more likely to be swatches).
I guess it could be just a page arranged with various gradients, but that would be a messy way of doing things.
or it could even be a bunch of different files. you're the only one with the file, so you'll have to see what you've got.