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Re: Reading a .deb package from a RedHat



On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 09:51:28AM +0200, noss wrote:
> I haven't got the file utility dpkg to unpack the binaries of a Debian
> package on a RedHat (I am just looking for the ntfs.o module)

Install binutils and use this command sequence:

mkdir pkg
ar p foo.deb data.tar.gz | tar zxf - -C pkg

Now everything will be extracted into the "pkg" directory you created.

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