Josip Rodin wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Yes, OK...., I was expecting a method that did not require to
download the full package...., just the index and a specific file....
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