Getting the content of an RPM package

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Subject: Getting the content of an RPM package
From: Viktor Rosenfeld <rosenfel@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 20:30:45 +0200
Message-id: <[🔎] 3B1147D5.5E974B5A@informatik.hu-berlin.de>

Hi folks,

is ist possible to access the content of an RPM package, without
actually installing it?  I tried

	rpm --nodeps --prefix /tmp/foo <package.rpm>

but it says that the package is not relocatable.

Thanks,
Viktor
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Viktor Rosenfeld
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