Thanks Justin and Eric,
ar vx FileName.deb works like a charm,
a data.tar.gz is extracted to current
dir, and can be renamed.
Just learnt that dpkg --extract calls
dpkg-deb. This needs a target dir ...
works fine, otherwise.
USM Bish
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 07:33:45AM -0800, Eric G . Miller w
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 09:08:41PM +0530, USM Bish wrote:
> I am lookinf for an alternate method of extracting
> basic .tar.gz component from a debian package (.deb).
> Alien often fails in this process, though the reverse
> usually works fine.
ar -x
or
dpkg --extract
or
dpkg-deb --extract
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