PAK file viewer for Linux?

[ImperiusDamian]

Subject says it all, really. Is there a PAK viewer for Linux? My google-fu is not that strong on the subject!

[Killo]

I use Pakscape through WINE, I know that works for me. but a pak explorer specifically for linux, I haven't seen one

[VaeVictis]

zip or 7z might just handle them, I am pretty sure .pak files are just glorified zip archives

you would want to do some testing before trusting it though

[QwazyWabbit]

The PACK format predates ZIP archives by a few years. PKPAK might handle it but i don't think it was ever open sourced. Phil Katz was the author but the ZIP format superseded it. In actual historical context ZIP files are glorified PAK files.

I made some tests on OS X but none of my ZIP handlers recognize the PAK file format and Pakscape isn't open source so you have to either use a Windows VM or WINE to run it.

Since Q2 knows how to extract the modules from PAK files, the code to do it must exist in the Q2 sources but I've never looked into it to see what could be done to make an open-source extractor for Linux and Windows to replace Pakscape. Some ambitious young programmer might want to take this up.

[ImperiusDamian]

Thanks guys, I guess for now I'll run Pakscape under a VM. I have a Windows VM on my Linux box already so that's no biggie.

[fromtheinside]

I'm using an simple archiver to handle pk3. No problem at all. (ubuntu fork 13.10 "Voyager")

[ImperiusDamian]

I'm using an simple archiver to handle pk3. No problem at all. (ubuntu fork 13.10 "Voyager")

Yeah, that's fine for PK3, I was thinking of the Q1 and Q2 PAKs though. (Mint 16 here.)

[Chargers]

dzip