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Re: Need help ?



On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 21:22:20 -0500, "Robert L. Harris"
<Robert.L.Harris@rdlg.net> top-posted so I humbly edited it:
>Thus spake Cyberthor (cyber@lynx.net):
>
>> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 18:15:48 -0800
>> From: Cyberthor <cyber@lynx.net>
>> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>> Subject: Need  help ?
>> X-Mailing-List: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> archive/latest/244950
>> 
>> Hello
>>         How do I open a .deb file in Debian Linux  of  wvdial~ 1.deb ?
>>               thank , Cyber
>> 
>
>dpkg -i wvdial~1.deb
>

That's how you _install_ it. If by "open" you mean "see what's in it"
then ar -x foo.deb extracts control.tar.gz and data.tar.gz which you
can read in the obvious way. See people's replies to my "Fik question
about Debian source packages" and "Manual ldconfig required HELP!!!"
especially the URLs of Debian FAQs therein.

Pigeon



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