Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >"Maury R. Merkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [How] can I get a listing of the files installed with a package? >> >> I.e., if package dork.deb was installed on my box last week, can I see >> what files were installed? If so, how? > >You might be interested to know that: > >If you install an app with apt-get then the .deb will be saved to >/var/cache/apt/archives > >If you then click on that .deb using GMC (the default Gnome file >manager) the contents will be opened up as if the .deb were a directory. >Very neat. If you don't use Gnome, then mc (Midnight Commander) will do >a similar thing. > >I find thsi useful because it is easy to read docs etc. before the >package is installed.
If you're more of a command-line fan, you can also do tricks like this: # List files in a .deb dpkg --fsys-tarfile foo.deb | tar t # Extract a file from a .deb to standard output and run it through a # decompressing pager. The initial . is necessary, though if the .deb # was generated with some other version of tar you might need to omit # the initial ./ instead. dpkg --fsys-tarfile foo.deb | \ tar xO ./usr/share/doc/foo/changelog.Debian.gz | zless -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
