Re: Extract one file from .deb?

[Peter Hugosson-Miller <pehu@im.se>]

Qian Gong wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to extract only one specified file from a deb package? I
> changed one configuration file and want to compare it with the original
> one.
>
> Thanks a lot in advance,
>
> Qian

To list the contents of a .deb file:

ar -t foo.deb

To unpack a .deb file:

ar -x foo.deb

Then use standard tar -xzf on the files inside, which are:

 debian-binary
 control.tar.gz
 data.tar.gz

Note: the file debian-binary is a text file, containing the text '2.0'
probably the revision of the .deb format?

--
Cheers!
   .~.
   /V\
  // \\
 /(   )\
  ^`~´^
< hugge >