Re: Extracting .tar.gz from .deb
Thanks Justin and Eric,
ar vx FileName.deb works like a charm,
a data.tar.gz is extracted to current
dir, and can be renamed.
Just learnt that dpkg --extract calls
dpkg-deb. This needs a target dir ...
works fine, otherwise.
USM Bish
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 07:33:45AM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 09:08:41PM +0530, USM Bish wrote:
> > I am looking for an alternate method of extracting
> > basic .tar.gz component from a debian package (.deb).
> > Alien often fails in this process, though the reverse
> > usually works fine.
>
> ar -x
>
> or
>
> dpkg --extract
>
> or
>
> dpkg-deb --extract
>
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> Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
>
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