CabExtract on Mac OS X

[hotai]

Hey there everyone. I have finally gotten wine to work-ish on 10.6.1 Snow Leopard but when I try to use winetricks to install things I get the error

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Cannot find cabextract.  Please install it (e.g. 'sudo apt-get install cabextract' or 'sudo yum install cabextract').

I have looked for over 3 days now and I can't find out how to install it using MacPorts... I don't really want to install another port thingy, and I won't lie that this is all VERY new to me. I'm pretty much just muscling my way through it all.

So any suggestions?

[ryan woodsmall]

I have looked for over 3 days now and I can't find out how to install it using MacPorts... I don't really want to install another port thingy, and I won't lie that this is all VERY new to me. I'm pretty much just muscling my way through it all.

Install it using MacPorts.

$ port info cabextract
cabextract @1.2 (archivers, compression, sysutils)
Variants: universal

Description: cabextract can extract Microsoft cabinet files, also
called .CAB files, on *nix systems. cabextract supports
all special features and all compression formats of
Microsoft cabinet files.
Homepage: http://www.cabextract.org.uk/

Platforms: darwin
License: unknown
Maintainers: [email protected], [email protected]

[doh123]

sudo port install cabextract

[hotai]

OH MY GOSH! Thank you... seriously. Someone couldn't have just put this somewhere... so question to help me further my unix education, is this standard procedure for installing all the software from a port website?

[hotai]

Ok second question too:

What would be the better port site to go with? Macports or Fink? Are there others out there? I figure it would be better to just use one and keep it simple for myself right now...

[James McKenzie]

hotai wrote:

Ok second question too:

What would be the better port site to go with? Macports or Fink? Are there others out there? I figure it would be better to just use one and keep it simple for myself right now...

This is more a political question than anything else. It's like saying
Red or White (Wine that is.) I have used Fink and don't like MacPorts.
Others are the exact opposite. I'll just say, it depends on your tastes
and leave it at that.

James McKenzie

[doh123]

I prefer Macports.. but technically you can run both... though sometimes with multiple versions of the same app in different places, depending on your path and stuff, might have some issues....

the best part of Macports though has to be xorg (which wine needs) ... always keep xorg updated and run X11.app from the /Application/Macports entry it makes... its sooo much better than Apples X11, and always kept up-to-date and can be run on 10.4 - 10.6...

if you install xorg from macports and want it to be your system default X11 instead of Apple's, you need to edit the file... "/System/Library/LaunchAgents/org.x.startx.plist" and change this line "/usr/X11/bin/startx" to this "/opt/local/bin/startx" if your macports is default... then anytime Wine or any other X11 using app tries to run, it'll launch the much better xorg version.

[James McKenzie]

doh123 wrote:

I prefer Macports.. but technically you can run both... though sometimes with multiple versions of the same app in different places, depending on your path and stuff, might have some issues....

the best part of Macports though has to be xorg (which wine needs) ... always keep xorg updated and run X11.app from the /Application/Macports entry it makes... its sooo much better than Apples X11, and always kept up-to-date and can be run on 10.4 - 10.6...

I just run XQuartz. That way I'm dealing with a tested release.
Running xorg out of the box has been known to cause problems on Macs.

James McKenzie

[doh123]

I just run XQuartz. That way I'm dealing with a tested release.
Running xorg out of the box has been known to cause problems on Macs.

James McKenzie

xorg from macports is Xquartz.... just always the latest version.