How do I open a CAB file on Mac OS?

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How do I open a CAB file on Mac OS X?

score 10 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 09 '09 at 11:19

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The Unarchiver supports them too.

answered Dec 09 '09 at 11:19

Davide Gualano

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score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 14 '20 at 10:30

In my case, neither The Unarchiver or cabextract were able to extract the .cab file, but the latter pointed me to unshield (https://github.com/twogood/unshield), which unpacked the file successfully.

Both cabextract and unshield are available in Homebrew (brew install unshield).

The syntax to unpack a file named data.cab with unshield is:

unshield x data.cab

Thilo · Answer 3 · 2009-12-10T01:29:02.727

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The Unarchiver failed to open my particular CAB file ("error decrunching"), so I tried another pretty open-source app, called keka, which could do it.

There is also a cross-platform command-line tool that works: cabextract.

edited Dec 10 '09 at 01:29

answered Dec 10 '09 at 01:15

Thilo

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score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 09 '09 at 09:24

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You may use the freeware StuffIt Expander 2010.
It supports over 30 archive file formats, including CAB.

answered Dec 09 '09 at 09:24

harrymc

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 07 '24 at 14:49

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Using unshield (brew install unshield):

Most install packages contain 3 files:

data1.hdr, data1.cab and data2.cab

Which can be extracted with:

unshield x data1.hdr

answered Mar 07 '24 at 14:49

Antonio Ulloa

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How do I open a CAB file on Mac OS?

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