macOS
brew install cabextractlocal Homebrew formula metadata
sudo port install cabextractMacPorts ports tree · archivers/cabextract/Portfile · Source: api.github.com
brew
Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de cabextract pour les workflows d'agents IA.
installation
brew install cabextractlocal Homebrew formula metadata
sudo port install cabextractMacPorts ports tree · archivers/cabextract/Portfile · Source: api.github.com
sudo apk add cabextractAlpine Linux edge package indexes · cabextract · Source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org
sudo apt install cabextractDebian stable package indexes · cabextract · Source: deb.debian.org
sudo dnf install cabextractFedora Rawhide package metadata · cabextract · Source: dl.fedoraproject.org
nix profile install nixpkgs#cabextractnixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/ca/cabextract/package.nix · Source: api.github.com
sudo pacman -S cabextractArch Linux sync databases · cabextract · Source: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com
sudo zypper install cabextractopenSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · cabextract · Source: download.opensuse.org
aperçu
Extract files from Microsoft cabinet files
historique
cabextract is a small, long-lived Free Software command-line utility for extracting Microsoft Cabinet files. It is tightly associated with Stuart Caie's libmspack library and remains a standard Unix-side tool for unpacking .CAB archives.
cabextract's README credits Stuart Caie and gives a 2000-2023 copyright span. The project focuses on Microsoft Cabinet archives, the format Microsoft used for software distribution and Windows Font Packs, and it explicitly distinguishes those archives from InstallShield cabinet files.
Version 1.0 was a major architectural point: the NEWS file says cabextract moved the hard decompression work into libmspack, making extraction more robust and faster while keeping the cabextract CLI focused on archive discovery, listing, filtering, testing, and extraction.
The official site describes cabextract as based on the portable LGPL libmspack library. libmspack itself supports Microsoft compression formats including SZDD, KWAJ, CAB, CHM, and Exchange Offline Address Book LZX data.
cabextract's adoption comes from solving an unglamorous but persistent packaging problem: Unix, BSD, macOS, Cygwin, DOS, and Amiga users often need to unpack Microsoft cabinet archives without Windows tooling. The official download page links to Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Homebrew, MacPorts, Cygwin, DOS/FreeDOS, and Amiga packages.
It became part of the background infrastructure of packaging, reverse-engineering, and driver/font extraction workflows because it is scriptable, small, and available in many distribution repositories.
Common usage is direct and Unix-like: cabextract file.cab extracts an archive, cabextract executable.exe searches for embedded cabinets, cabextract -d selects an output directory, cabextract -F filters filenames, cabextract -l lists contents, and cabextract -t tests extraction integrity.
The tool also handles multipart cabinet sets and Windows CE installation cabinets, and its documentation includes magic-file rules to help distinguish Microsoft cabinets from InstallShield files.
For package nerds, cabextract is classic plumbing: tiny surface, high leverage, and useful exactly when an upstream ships Windows-era cabinet payloads inside installers or self-extracting files. It is the sort of utility that quietly keeps cross-platform packaging and archival workflows sane.
Its libmspack relationship matters because it separates archive-format knowledge from CLI ergonomics, letting other software use the library while packagers keep a simple cabextract executable.
posture de sécurité
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
risque vert · confiance faible · appliance
Avant une utilisation sans surveillance par un agent, vérifiez si l'outil lit des identifiants en clair, écrit un état distant, publie des artefacts ou lance des plugins.
exécutables
| Commande | Type | Exposition | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
cabextract | cli | exécutable global |
fraîcheur
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https://www.cabextract.org.uk/
métadonnées d'installation
| Clé du paquet | brew:cabextract |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.11 |
| Gestionnaire de paquets | Homebrew |
| Page du gestionnaire de paquets | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/cabextract |
| Page d'accueil | https://www.cabextract.org.uk/ |
| Dépôt | https://github.com/kyz/libmspack/tree/master/cabextract |
| Docs amont | https://www.cabextract.org.uk/ |
| Licence | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| Archive source | https://www.cabextract.org.uk/cabextract-1.11.tar.gz |
| Bouteille | disponible (sur arm64_big_sur, arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, monterey, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux) |
| post-install Homebrew | non défini |
| Service | aucun déclaré |
faits du registre
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | cabextract |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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correspondances dans les bases sources
Les correspondances proviennent d’index externes de gestionnaires de paquets et restent séparées des liens de paquets Automic Vault locaux.
cabextract 1.11-2
Microsoft Cabinet file unpacker
sudo apt install cabextractcabextract
nix profile install nixpkgs#cabextractcabextract 1.11-2
Microsoft Cabinet file unpacker
sudo apt install cabextractcabextract 1.11-r2
Tool for extracting Microsoft cabinet files
https://www.cabextract.org.uk/
sudo apk add cabextractcabextract-doc 1.11-r2
Tool for extracting Microsoft cabinet files (documentation)
https://www.cabextract.org.uk/
sudo apk add cabextract-doccabextract 1.11-10.fc44
Utility for extracting cabinet (.cab) archives
https://www.cabextract.org.uk/
sudo dnf install cabextractcabextract 1.11-2
A program to extract Microsoft cabinet (.CAB) files
https://www.cabextract.org.uk/
sudo pacman -S cabextractcabextract 1.11-1.10
A Program to Extract Microsoft Cabinet Files
https://www.cabextract.org.uk/
sudo zypper install cabextractcabextract
sudo port install cabextractpiste source
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