MC and .deb files (was Re: extract only PART of an archive)
On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> 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:
[...]
> +# deb
> +regex/\.deb$
> + Open=%cd deb:%d/%p/
> + View=%view{ascii} dpkg-deb -c %f
> +
I think the problem was that the patch was applied (it's right at the
start of the file), but the output was left as /etc/mc.ext and not
/etc/mc/mc.ext (this is version 3.5.17-1). So it's enough to copy the
former to the latter.
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