Re: extract only PART of an archive
On Sun, 28 Sep 1997 liiwi@dlc.fi wrote:
> >> > I've searched through the dpkg info and man pages and haven't found any
> >> > way to do this (I might be blind, though). Is there anyway to do it with
> >> > out doing
> >> >
> >> > dpkg -R /tmp/ file.deb
> >> >
> >> > and then moving the one file and clearing /tmp?
> >> >
> >> I use Midnight Commander for this. It has a feature that lets you "dive"
> >> into a .deb file (it may require a patch to mc.ext, see below) and "view"
> >> the contents. You can also copy any file you see "out" to another
> >> directory using Midnight Commander.
> >>
> >> As I said, some of the latest version of mc don't have the following patch
> >> applied. It is simply a matter of checking /etc/mc/mc.ext to see if it
> >> contains the following:
I downloaded the upstream mc and did a standard build to get these
features and more. I use mc for lots of important things so I don't see
why the debianized package is many months behind the upstream. Especially
since this is an official GNU program.
PW
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