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Re: How to get dependencies also ...



Dinesh Nadarajah <dindin2k@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Also, how do I browse through the contents of a *.deb
>package? (dpkg -I *.deb ???).

'dpkg -I' displays "control" information about the package; 'dpkg -c'
lists the files it contains. If you want anything more detailed than
that, 'dpkg --fsys-tarfile package.deb > package.tar' will give you a
tar file you can browse through at will.

-- 
Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]



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