Oki, i recently finally got round to gettin GMOD, i jonied a server and seen tons of red error signs, the people on server tell me I need Pheonix final, I look for it and find it, but its a .rar file. I extract it, and run gmod, no differecne, i look at a few tuts, none make any sense but i do what they say...still no diffence, i ask someone on server how to do it and i fade out of existance

I can never get anything that doesnt have an installer to work properly.

So, does anyone know where i can get Addons that have installers
or does Anyone know how to or got a tut that shows how to extract rar files correctly

Thx

Right click the rar and use the "Extract to Pheonixfinal" (whatever the file is called)

It will make a folder in the same archive you are in containing all the rar's contents.
Then go to your Garry's mod folder and put the models etc where the folders tell you too.

Thing is about Gmod, mostly every server online is not vannilla and is running 1 or more different mods, find out what these servers are using then DL the mods, most of the time they come with a readme in the rar, use that to unpack the mods