.Sit, linux, .Sit!

[bconover]

I have a some Mac archives I want to open. Some are in .sit.bin, some just .sit, and some .hqx. So... how can I decompress them?

Preferably without buying Linux StuffIt. I would prefer something free. While reading online, I've heard of a Linux Aladdin expander that supposedly should do what I want. I also heard of something known as unstuff. I tried to find these online, but the StuffIt page that I get directed to for the free Linux version is dead.

Anyone know where to get something that will decompress these archives?

I'm using Ubuntu Hardy.

[Shazaam]

Have you looked here?......
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-lw-comp.html#h4

[bconover]

http://www.aladdinsys.com/expander/expander_linux_login.html

Link is dead.

"To decompress an .sit archive, type unstuff archive.sit"

$ unstuff archive.sit (archive is replaced for the name of my file)

bash: unstuff: command not found

[Shazaam]

After doing some more searching it seems aladdinsys has been either bought out/changed their name and a linux version of Stuffit is no longer available so I am out of ideas.

[bingoUV]

Do you know how to do it in windows? Maybe you could try that in wine on ubuntu

[ibuclaw]

You could try it with a Windows App in wine.

http://www.extractnow.com/

Regards
Iain

[bconover]

The program installs fine, but it won't extract.

[bconover]

I installed the 30 day trial version of Stuff It for Linux, and that is working, but obviously only for 30 days.

[ibuclaw]

Hmm... yeah your right.

The website is lying! :lolflag:

It appears sit archive support has been removed from it. (Note the gap between LHA and TAR files...

Have a look round, see what you can find...

[EDIT]
If Stuffit will be the only Windows based software you will have installed, then removing the .wine folder every 30 days and reinstalling would evade the register time limit.

Not the nicest of workarounds, but if you are going to use it on a continuous basis... (I personally recommend that you use 7zip to compress your files).

Regards
Iain

[Delkster]

Not the nicest of workarounds, but if you are going to use it on a continuous basis... (I personally recommend that you use 7zip to compress your files).

Yeah, it's not a very good idea to keep using a proprietary archival format if you can avoid it. Of course opening old data that has already been stored using such a format is another story -- hopefully the trial version can solve that.

But then, if you really, really need to keep using such a format even in the future, I guess you could just shell out the cash for the tool. If it's a Windows app, you'll want to make sure that it really works with Wine as far as you need it to, of course. But again, it's not a good idea to keep using proprietary formats in the first place.

[bconover]

Thanks for the help. I'm just going to pay the 30 bucks for the full Linux version. I will probably be compressing and decompressing Stuff It archives a lot, so it'll be worth it.

[cronopios]

This is rather old, but I guess it will still be useful with .sit archives (not with the newer .sitx)

http://ftp.linux.cz/pub/tex/CTAN/archive-tools/unstuff/

[mrmudman56]

FYI
Found it at

http://web.archive.org/web/20060205025441/http://www.stuffit.com/downloads/files/stuffit520.611linux-i386.tar.gz

[pmooney78]

You do have a couple of other options. ...

One is to use the macutil package (it's in the standard repositories, typing "sudo apt-get install macutil" without the quotes should install it), which claims to be able to deal with StuffIt files.

The other is to set up a Mac emulator, then install Mac software in the emulated Mac environment and use it to decompress the StuffIt files and transfer them to your Linux box. BasiliskII works pretty well and is available in the Ubuntu repositories, but only emulates a 68k-based Mac (meaning you can only install system software through OS version 8.1, and can't run PowerPC programs). This is probably too much of a hassle unless it's your only option, though ... you need to get a Mac ROM image file and install MacOS on a virtual hard drive. There are tutorials that can walk you through the process at http://basilisk.cebix.net/.

If you have to run PowerPC code, you can try SheepShaver, which has apparently become open-source recently. However, it's not available in the standard repositories (translation: you have to hunt down a prepackaged .deb file, or compile it yourself, adding an additional layer of hassle to initial setup), and my personal experience is that it's not particularly stable. You still need to install MacOS on a virtual hard drive and get a Mac ROM image.

On the other hand, if you're just looking to run StuffIt Expander and a few other programs, either will give you a (mostly) working Mac installation, which is kind of fun.

[Cloud_704]

"To decompress an .sit archive, type unstuff archive.sit"

$ unstuff archive.sit (archive is replaced for the name of my file)

bash: unstuff: command not found

I get the same message: command not found. I have the executable named 'unstuff' in my /usr/bin which I downloaded from here (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=47226), but I can't figure out how to "activate" it. Seemingly related is that when I ls the folder in the terminal, all the other executables are in green letters, but 'unstuff' is black (even after restart).

Edit: solved. Installing the executable of same name from the link above in this thread worked.

[afrodeity]

none of the links work

[nerdy_kid]

try this in wine: http://legroom.net/software/uniextract

should work, I think.