Quoting Joon Guillen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 18:21, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote:
>> I'm not sure (I haven't explored rpms as I did with debs), but I just >> use Midnight Commander, peek at the files contained in the rpm (it's >> just another archive format with special rules anyway) then copy the >> wanted file inside to my place of choice. A lazy solution anyway... When >> I get in the "mood" (of being a masochist ;) I try extracting all the >> contents of the debian package (there's a saner way, but I've yet to >> RTFM what it is...) > > MC can do that eh? I'm using gentoo right now (the Konqueror file > browser is quite heavy on memory/CPU usage, it seems), maybe it can > browse packages as well. > > Thanks chief! Thanks from me, too! I hadn't known that. I knew that mc could look inside tarballs, but didn't know that it could peek inside "ar" archives (which is what .debs are). By the way, there's a perl script around called rpm2cpio to convert RPMs to straight cpio archives. I have an old version at http://linuxmafia.com/pub/linux/utilities-general/ , but it needs to be updated slightly to work on the latest version of that format. Actually, it _works_ on v4 RPM files, but only if you comment out the two lines beginning with the "die" keyword. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
