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. dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile file.deb | tar xvf - file Note that "file" may need to be "./path/to/file" -- note the leading dot -- depending on what version of tar was used to generate the .deb file. -- see shy jo