On Mon, Jun 24, 2024, at 11:23 PM, Tim via users wrote:
> On Mon, 2024-06-24 at 19:48 -0700, Mike Wright wrote:
>> I can't dissect a .rpm but I know how to dissect a .deb so I installed 
>> totem onto Ubuntu 24.04 (latest release) so I could take it apart. 
>
> You can open them in an archive manager (treating them the same as zip
> files, and various other archive formats).  Allowing you to see the
> contents, and interact with some of them).
>
> And you can list the contents from the command line.
>
> e.g. rpm -qlp packagename.rpm

Just adding my saved note on how it can be done:

Pull files out of an rpm without installing it:
mkdir foo ; cp file.rpm foo ; cd foo
rpm2cpio - < file.rpm | cpio --extract --no-absolute-filenames 
--make-directories
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