On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 02:15:58PM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 10:00:14PM +0200, Egon Willighagen wrote:
> workaround: just extract the data.tar.gz where you want it.
>
> dpkg-home () {
> [ "$1" ] || { echo "usage: $0 <deb_to_install.deb> [dir_to_install]"
> return 1 }
> ( cd ${2:-$HOME}
> ar p $1 data.tar.gz | tar xzf - )
> }
Or simply:
dpkg --extract <deb> <dir>
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- mdz