Software

Downloads for my GIS Mac OS X porting activities have their own page.

SumomOS GUI makeover for Mac OS X.

0.4 – 2006/3/12

PAR2 command line utility for PAR version 2. Also works to verify and repair PAR version 2 files. See parchive.sourceforge.net for all the gorey details about PAR2.

PAR2 is licensed under the GNU GPL

par2cmdline-0.4.macosx.dmg (527KB)

1.0 – 2006/3/12

Command line IPS patcher. Create and apply IPS patches. If you don't know what an IPS patch is, you probably don't need this.

uips-macosx.dmg (87KB)

4.20 – 2005/6/21

Yet another compression format. Pretty impressive compression, but doesn't retain Mac/UNIX permissions. This won't be updated for Universal PPC/Intel - there is a good 7z GUI available now that is Universal.

7zaMacOSX.dmg (796KB)

3.5b5a2 – 2005/7/9

unRAR command line utility. NOTE: my 'a' versions have a renaming hack for old Mac rars with accented characters. If you install RarLab's rar, don't install the unrar from that package, use my unrar instead. See the included history.txt for details on unrar changes, here I will just list changes to the build and package.

- I've decided to not update unrar for Universal PPC/Intel. A universal build is available from Rarlab. And the old-Mac rar name problem is so obscure it's not worth it (I ran into it once in the early OS X days).

unRAR35b5a2-MacOSX.dmg (153KB)

Check out rarlab.com for a current CLI rar for Mac OS X.

Uninstalling unrar

Tho there's no harm in leaving it installed if you move to the GUI version, here's how to uninstall unrar. Open a Terminal window and type (the stuff in bold):

$ sudo rm /usr/local/bin/unrar

And type your admin password when asked.

1.5.3 – 2003/3/5

If the command line is not your thing - here's a GUI front-end for unRAR X. Drag-and-Drop extraction. Built-in PAR recovery. Written by Peter Noriega, released under the Gnu Public License. See the About UnRarX menu for more info. Based on unRAR X 3.20a. NOTE: you don't need the CLI unrar above, it's built into UnRarX.

UnRarX153.sit (231KB)

NOTE: see the project page at SourceForge for a newer version.

Updating UnRarX

Quick-and-dirty instructions for replacing the unrar and par2 binaries in UnRarX with a newer version:

1. Locate UnRarX and control-click to get the contextual menu. Select Show Package Contents.
2. Open the folder Contents/Resources.
3. Drag the new unrar binary into this folder and replace the old one.
4. Close your windows and you're set!