The libmspack package provides a library that handles some Microsoft compression formats such as CAB, CHM, and HLP. It also provides cabextract which extracts Microsoft cabinet files.
Install libmspack by executing the following commands:
cd libmspack && autoreconf -fi && ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static && make
Now as the root
user:
make install
Now install the cabextract program by running the following commands:
cd ../cabextract && autoreconf -fi -I/usr/share/gettext/m4 && ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --disable-static \ --with-external-libmspack=yes && make
Now as the root
user:
make install