Re: using dpkg to "see" the contents of a package

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Subject: Re: using dpkg to "see" the contents of a package
From: Gertjan Klein <gklein@xs4all.nl>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 00:00:16 +0100 (MET)
Message-id: <199711182300.AAA10660@xs2.xs4all.nl>

Martin Bialasinski <martinb@haitech.internet-treff.de> wrote:

 > I heavily use mc to enter a deb package. Then I can even examine the
 > contents of the files inside without the need of dpkg --extract. It is
 > pretty neat.

  How do you do this?  My mc (3.5.17, from Debian 1.3.1) doesn't seem to
support .deb packages by default, and neither the .ar files that they
really are (just .tar files).

  Gertjan.

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