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cabextract mit Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper installieren

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Installation

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macOS

Homebrewverifiziert · 100%
brew install cabextract

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsverifiziert · 94%
sudo port install cabextract

MacPorts ports tree · archivers/cabextract/Portfile · Quelle: api.github.com

Linux

Alpine Linux apkverifiziert · 92%
sudo apk add cabextract

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · cabextract · Quelle: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org

Debian aptverifiziert · 92%
sudo apt install cabextract

Debian stable package indexes · cabextract · Quelle: deb.debian.org

Fedora dnfverifiziert · 92%
sudo dnf install cabextract

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · cabextract · Quelle: dl.fedoraproject.org

Nixverifiziert · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#cabextract

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/ca/cabextract/package.nix · Quelle: api.github.com

Arch Linux pacmanverifiziert · 92%
sudo pacman -S cabextract

Arch Linux sync databases · cabextract · Quelle: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com

openSUSE zypperverifiziert · 92%
sudo zypper install cabextract

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · cabextract · Quelle: download.opensuse.org

Überblick

Paketzusammenfassung

Extract files from Microsoft cabinet files

Befehle und Aliase

  • cabextract

Verlauf

Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

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.

Projektgeschichte

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.

Adoptionsgeschichte

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.

Wie es verwendet wird

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.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

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.

Zeitleiste

  • 2000: cabextract copyright history begins.
  • Version 1.0: cabextract moved core decompression work to libmspack.
  • 2013-2015: 1.5 fixed crashes and hangs found with afl fuzzing by Debian contributors.
  • 2023-02-05: libmspack 0.11alpha was released.
  • 2023-02-24: cabextract 1.11 was released.

Related projects

  • libmspack is the library cabextract uses for Microsoft compression formats.
  • Microsoft Cabinet is the archive format cabextract targets.
  • InstallShield cabinet files are explicitly out of scope and detected separately.
  • Windows CE cabinet tooling is included through cabextract's related scripts and documentation.

Sicherheitslage

Risikostufe: grün

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risikoklassifikator

grün Risiko · niedrig Konfidenz · appliance

Warum

  • narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signale

  • metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Installationsverhalten

  • Es wurden keine Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten erfasst.

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Executables

Installierte Executables

BefehlArtSichtbarkeitHinweis
cabextractExecutableindexiertes ExecutableAus dem lokalen Executable-Index erkannt.

Aktualität

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Installationsmetadaten

Paketmetadaten

Paketschlüsselbrew:cabextract
Version1.11
PaketmanagerHomebrew
Homepagehttps://www.cabextract.org.uk/
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Debian apt95%

cabextract 1.11-2

Microsoft Cabinet file unpacker

sudo apt install cabextract
  • Section: utils
  • Architecture: amd64
  • 2 Abhängigkeiten
  • normalized package name match
  • Abgeglichen nach: Cabextract
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: cabextract from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Nix95%

cabextract

nix profile install nixpkgs#cabextract
  • normalized package name match
  • Abgeglichen nach: Cabextract
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ca/cabextract/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
Ubuntu apt95%

cabextract 1.11-2

Microsoft Cabinet file unpacker

sudo apt install cabextract
  • Section: universe/utils
  • Architecture: amd64
  • 2 Abhängigkeiten
  • normalized package name match
  • Abgeglichen nach: Cabextract
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: cabextract from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
apk95%

cabextract 1.11-r2

Tool for extracting Microsoft cabinet files

https://www.cabextract.org.uk/

sudo apk add cabextract
  • License: GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: cabextract
  • 1 Abhängigkeiten
  • 1 stellt bereit
  • normalized package name match
  • Abgeglichen nach: Cabextract
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: cabextract from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

cabextract-doc 1.11-r2

Tool for extracting Microsoft cabinet files (documentation)

https://www.cabextract.org.uk/

sudo apk add cabextract-doc
  • License: GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: cabextract
  • normalized package name match
  • Abgeglichen nach: Cabextract
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: cabextract-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
dnf95%

cabextract 1.11-11.fc45

Utility for extracting cabinet (.cab) archives

https://www.cabextract.org.uk/

sudo dnf install cabextract
  • License: GPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-only
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: cabextract
  • 2 Abhängigkeiten
  • 2 stellt bereit
  • normalized package name match
  • Abgeglichen nach: Cabextract
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: cabextract from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst
pacman95%

cabextract 1.11-3

A program to extract Microsoft cabinet (.CAB) files

https://www.cabextract.org.uk/

sudo pacman -S cabextract
  • License: GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • 1 Abhängigkeiten
  • normalized package name match
  • Abgeglichen nach: Cabextract
Arch Linux sync databases · geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com · Arch Linux sync databases: cabextract from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz
zypper95%

cabextract 1.11-1.12

A Program to Extract Microsoft Cabinet Files

https://www.cabextract.org.uk/

sudo zypper install cabextract
  • License: GPL-3.0-or-later
  • Category: System/Console
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: cabextract
  • 2 Abhängigkeiten
  • 1 stellt bereit
  • normalized package name match
  • Abgeglichen nach: Cabextract
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: cabextract from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst
MacPorts95%

cabextract

sudo port install cabextract
  • normalized package name match
  • Abgeglichen nach: Cabextract
MacPorts ports tree · api.github.com · MacPorts ports tree: archivers/cabextract/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

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