On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 11:58:04PM +0100, Matthijs Melchior wrote:
> > > To read the changelog I have to download and install it. But I don't
> > > like to install unknown compilers on my development machines. Especially
> > > since there is no undo operation for dpkg -i.
> >
> > To read the changelog, you do not have to install it.
>
> Yes, this is something I want to know how to do. The Debian changelog is
> available through the web access to the packages, but how do I get the
> upstream changelog that is also part of that package.... [Or to make
> the question even more general, how do I download the package list of files
> and than one specific file from that list...?..]
dpkg-deb -x package.deb directory # and you'll have the package's files
# extracted in directory/
See the manual page for more information.
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