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Re: Uncompress ".deb" files?



MN.at.Theater-Fletch-Bizzel@t-online.de (Marco Nuessgen) writes:
> Does anybody know how i can uncompress the ".deb" files from the
> installation-CDROM? I must install "sed" before I can install Linux.

The *.deb files are simple "ar" archives. You can extract their
contents with:

ar x file.deb

Do a "man ar" for more options.

Gary


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