Re: unpackaged tools?

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Chris Blazie <chris@blazie.com> wrote:
>	I've never used a debian distribution, but now I have a need to
>look at some debian packages.

Aside from using dpkg itself, any Unix system should be able to unpack
Debian packages. If you do 'ar x filename.deb', you'll get three files:

  * debian-binary, basically just a version identifier;
  * control.tar.gz, with information about the package and maintainer
    scripts and so on;
  * data.tar.gz, which is a filesystem archive.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]