Re: using dpkg to "see" the contents of a package
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Gertjan Klein wrote:
>
> Lindsay Allen <allen@cleo.murdoch.edu.au> wrote:
>
> > IIRC you add this snippet to /etc/mc/mc.ext
>
> > regex/\.deb$
> > Open=%cd deb:%d/%p/
> > View=%view{ascii} dpkg-deb -c %f
>
> Yes, that works! Great! It is really nice to be able to browse
> inside the packages on the CD-ROM, especially the /usr/doc parts of
> them.
>
> > Better yet is to get an unofficial later version.
>
> Why? My current version works for me - are the later versions so much
> better?
>
Yes. 3.5.17-1 has real troubles - in particular it is slow and the screen
flashes black at times. The later versions run smoothly and have a little
more in the way of functions - e.g. background transfers.
BTW, The unoffical mc_4.1.11-0.1_i386.deb is libc5 and thus bo compatible.
Lindsay
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