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Re: DEB file?



"Walter" wrote:
  >I downloaded your uudecoder and find that your file is a "DEB" file.  =
  >Now i have two kinds of files that I cannot decode: UU and DEB. =20
  >Would it be possible to find out what program can decode the DEB file?

.deb files are only intended to be installed in an existing Debian system.
The decoder/installer is dpkg.

If you haven't got a Debian system, look in www.debian.org for
instructions on how to get one.

If you want to look inside the .deb file, it is an ar archive, that
contains 3 files, two of which are gzipped tar archives.

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