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

[Lindsay Allen <allen@cleo.murdoch.edu.au>]

On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Gertjan Klein wrote:

> 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).

IIRC you add this snippet to /etc/mc/mc.ext

regex/\.deb$
        Open=%cd deb:%d/%p/
        View=%view{ascii} dpkg-deb -c %f
 
Better yet is to get an unofficial later version.  Try
ietpd1.sowi.uni-mainz.de/pub/debian/unofficial/binaries
for mc_4.1.11-0.1_i386.deb.  (I do not know yet whether it is libc5 or
libc6.)

Lindsay

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