Hello
Travis Crump (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 11:02:27AM -0800, Debs Spammagnet wrote:
>>
>>>I've been trying to de-deb a .deb file without root
>>>permission. I just want to unwrap the file like a tar
>>>file. I DO NOT WANT TO INSTALL IT. I just want to
>>>UNPACK it like i might a TAR file.
>>>
>
> Well, then use tar. :)
>
> ar -pf some.deb data.tar.gz | tar xzf -
Or use dpkg:
dpkg -x package .
will extract the deb (with paths) to the current dir.
best regards
Andreas Janssen
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