On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 06:25, Sasha Pachev wrote: > I recently discovered a great tool in Slackware - rpm2tgz - as the name > suggests, converts an rpm to a good old tar.gz. I just love this tool. > > As some of you may have already heard, my approach to package management is: > > * get the binary in > * try to run it > * fix problems if it does not work > > So rpm2tgz is just a perfect tool for the job.
RPM comes with a similar tool called rpm2cpio. It creates cpio archives, as you probably guessed. Those can then be extracted with the command 'cpio -i <archive'. While not as common of a tool as tar, it gets the job done and is guaranteed to be installed wherever RPMs are found. Corey ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
