Re: unpacking *.deb
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 02:06:31PM +0530, kilaru wrote:
> I am running Red Hat 7.2 on my m/c
>
> I downloaded one package from debian.
> Its name is foo.deb
>
> How do I unpack it?
Karsten posed real answer using "ar". There is a easy way if Redhat
packaged mc (midnight commander) properly. On my Debian box, if I fire
up:
$ mc
and point to any package *.rpm, *.tgz, *.deb (RH, Slack, DEB) and press
enter, I get their contents listed as if it is sub-directory.
Cherrs :-)
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