Re: How do I use dpkg without superuser privileges?

[Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>]

Hello

Travis Crump (<pretzalz@techhouse.org>) wrote:

> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>> 
>> On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 11:02:27AM -0800, Debs Spammagnet wrote:
>> 
>>>I've been trying to de-deb a .deb file without root
>>>permission. I just want to unwrap the file like a tar
>>>file. I DO NOT WANT TO INSTALL IT. I just want to
>>>UNPACK it like i might a TAR file.
>>>
> 
> Well, then use tar. :)
> 
> ar -pf some.deb data.tar.gz | tar xzf -

Or use dpkg:

dpkg -x package .

will extract the deb (with paths) to the current dir.

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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