On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 03:13:06PM +0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > There is a deficiency. It is very hard to unpack an rpm package without > having rpm installed. Users of other OS'es are forced to use > hexdump+dd+gzip+cpio or port rpm their systems, install it, initialize > database etc.
If you have perl installed, a script called rpm2cpio is also available. In this case, the requirements would be perl, cpio, gzip, and tar, which does not seem terribly unreasonable or difficult to me.
