Re: Getting the content of an RPM package

[Alson van der Meulen <alson@linuxfreak.nl>]

On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 08:30:45PM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote:
> 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.
try rpm2cpio, it converts it to a cpio archive, which could be
extracted with cpio

mc can browse in rpms too...

alien can extract them too i think, look at the -g option of alien
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