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Bug 149061 - Support for Microsoft cabinet files
Support for Microsoft cabinet files
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: file-roller
Classification: Applications
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Low enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: Paolo Bacchilega
file-roller-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-08-02 12:15 UTC by Gavin Brown
Modified: 2008-06-25 08:16 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Gavin Brown 2004-08-02 12:15:38 UTC 
File Roller could offer support for .cab files (and .exe files that use the CAB
format) using the cabextract program
(http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/cabextract.php), or the libmspack library
(http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/libmspack/). This would make tasks like extracting
fonts or multimedia codecs from self-extracting installer programs possible.
Comment 1 Sven Arvidsson 2004-11-30 14:41:29 UTC 
There is also an utility called unshield that supports extracting InstallShield
Cabinet Files. (These files are also called .cab but are different from the
Microsoft cabinet files).
Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2007-05-23 09:28:28 UTC 
This is what cabextract says on such a file:
"
WARNING; found InstallShield header. This is probably an InstallShield file. Use UNSHIELD (http://synce.sf.net) to unpack it.
"

Changing the summary. I filed bug 440651 about the Installshield CAB packages.
Comment 3 Paolo Bacchilega 2008-06-25 08:16:37 UTC 
The current development version (in trunk) can read cabinet files with 7zip