Re: What is the best way to manage 3rd party debs?

["Mumia W.." <paduille.4061.mumia.w+nospam@earthlink.net>]

On 08/12/2008 03:42 PM, Aniruddha wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 22:49 +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
> > If 3rd party deb doesn't contain 'Replaces' field, dpkg will refuse any try to break any
> > file owned by existing packages.
>
> That sounds good, but what about a deb created by checkinstall?
> According to Martin Krafft this can still seriously wreck your system?!

You can extract the .deb in a testding folder and examine its contents. 
Use "dpkg -x" for this.