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Re: how to extract a single file from a debian package?



On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 06:23:30PM -0700, a wrote:
> Please reply to softguy@citiz.net because I'll leave the list in a minute.

A deb package is a ar (shell archive) file.  "ar -x" will unarchive it.
You can do this in a temporary directory and select files to your
desire.

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