Bug 83136

Summary:	Support for file type CAB
Product:	[Applications] ark	Reporter:	Matt Endebrock <mendebrock>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Raphael Kubo da Costa <rakuco>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	elvis.angelaccio, KaiUweBroulik2, rakuco, rthomsen6
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	2.1.9
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	RedHat Enterprise Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Bug Blocks:	192630

Description Matt Endebrock 2004-06-10 06:16:34 UTC

Version:           2.1.9 (using KDE KDE 3.2.2)
Installed from:    RedHat RPMs
OS:                Linux

Hello!
	Please consider adding Microsoft .cab file extraction support. There is already an command-line extraction utility that has been GPL'd and can be found at:
	http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/cabextract.php#unshield

    File creation code is also currently available, and can be found here(also GPL):
	http://www.geekshop.be/rien/lcab/
The author of cabextract plans on providing support via his published library (libmspack) in the future as well.

Notes: 
	-There are 2 different formats that use the .cab extension (see FAQ's on first URL).
	-The cabextract utility correctly recognizes both formats and issues an error message for the unsupported format.
	-The other format is popular for Installshield(TM, or something similar) Installers and has yet another extraction tool available, which can be found here: http://synce.sourceforge.net/synce/unshield.php
	-I noticed on the synce website that there was a sub-project to bring WindowsCE support to KDE. I'm bringing it to your attention in case there might be any opportunities for collaboration or avoiding conflict.

	Thanks for your time,
                 Matt Endebrock

Comment 1 Haris Kouzinopoulos 2006-04-04 13:20:51 UTC

Anyone knows the status of the cab utilities? Are the usable now?

Comment 2 Angel Blue01 2009-03-03 22:57:42 UTC

This should be integrated into Ark like it is in Peazip.

Comment 3 Brad Hards 2009-05-15 12:19:15 UTC

We have a partial implementation of .cab in playground.

http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/playground/libs/kcabinet/

Comment 4 Kai Uwe Broulik 2010-08-27 04:17:21 UTC

There also should be a kio-slave for opening cabs in dolphin/konqueror like zip or tar files.

Comment 5 Raphael Kubo da Costa 2010-12-08 02:14:26 UTC

Changing the default assignee for currently open Ark bug reports to me.

Comment 6 Ragnar Thomsen 2015-07-22 18:32:25 UTC

Ark has read-support for cab files through the libarchive plugin for a long time now. Can we close this bug now?

Comment 7 Elvis Angelaccio 2015-07-26 11:05:51 UTC

This bug was targeted by Review Request 103306. The patch has been approved 3 years ago (commit 4ede2c074e5f622edf8333892286296f2d4e9b8b) but the author didn't add the BUG keyword in the commit message. I don't see why we shouldn't close it manually, so I'm doing it.