How do I open a CAB file on Mac OS?

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

4 Answers

The Unarchiver supports them too.

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.

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

In my case, neither The Unarchiver or cabextract were able to extract the .cab file, but the latter pointed me to 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