Chris Blazie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've never used a debian distribution, but now I have a need to >look at some debian packages.
Aside from using dpkg itself, any Unix system should be able to unpack
Debian packages. If you do 'ar x filename.deb', you'll get three files:
* debian-binary, basically just a version identifier;
* control.tar.gz, with information about the package and maintainer
scripts and so on;
* data.tar.gz, which is a filesystem archive.
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Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
