Re: extract file from RPM

[Thornton Prime]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Uday Pai wrote:

> Hi all,
> Is there any option to extract a file from a rpm?

Yes ... no ...

rpms store files basically in cpio format. You can use the rpm2cpio
command to convert an rpm to cpio format and then pipe the results through
cpio to extract the file you want.

thornton



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