Hello Jeff, hello Petr, On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Jeff Teunissen wrote: > Debian packages are gzipped tar archives inside an ar archive. On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Petr Cech wrote: >so try ar x ed*.deb and you get control.tar.gz, data.tar.gz and I think >version. Further steps are left for the reader. Thanks very much for the tip, didn't know that. It seems to me, inexperienced as I am with debian-packaging, a very sensible concept. Regards, Daniel