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Re: Is it possible to conduct a Debian install over wifi (iwlwifi)?



L'octidi 18 ventôse, an CCXXIV, Brian a écrit :
> 2. Unpack the .deb for the firmware you want:
> 
>     ar -x /cdrom/pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/<your_firmware.deb>
> 
> 3. Uncompress data.tar.xz:
> 
>     unxz data.tar.xz
> 
> 4. Install the firmware in /lib/firmware:
> 
>     tar xvf data.tar

What is the point of doing three steps with intermediate files when a single
step is enough?

For decompressing and detaring, everybody knows how to use a pipe:

unxz < data.tar.xz | tar x

With GNU tar, "tar xJ" will call unxz automatically, and if the input is a
file, "tar xf" will detect the compression.

Furthermore, dpkg provides tools to handle deb packages:

dpkg --fsys-tarfile /path/to/file.deb | tar x

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George

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