Re: dpkg: extract specific file?

[Mike Werner <reznaeous@earthlink.net>]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 07:24:50PM -0700, Patrick Walsh wrote:
> Can dpkg be used to extract a specific file from a .deb?
> 
> None of the switches listed in the man or --help leaps out as a 
> candidate for this function.

Dunno about dpkg, but Midnight Commander can do it.  Just fire up
mc, find the deb in question, highlight it, and hit enter.  Give it
a second or two and mc will open the deb like it was a directory,
allowing you to copy out individual files.

Note: mc can do that with deb's, rpm's, tar's, gz's, tgz's, etc.
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