Re: few questions about .deb

Quoth M G Berberich, > Hello, > > I have a few questions about Debian-packages: > > - Is there an easy way (not ar+tar) to see what files a package will > install bevor it is installed? (after install 'dpkg -L' will do it) eval `/usr/bin/lesspipe` less filename.deb is one way... cheers, d

Re: few questions about .deb

> > Hello, > > I have a few questions about Debian-packages: > > - Is there an easy way (not ar+tar) to see what files a package will > install bevor it is installed? (after install 'dpkg -L' will do it) > More then one. For example: dpkg-deb -c > - If I build a debian-package for

Re: few questions about .deb

M G Berberich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >- Is there an easy way (not ar+tar) to see what files a package will > install bevor it is installed? (after install 'dpkg -L' will do it) Yes, 'dpkg -c foo.deb' (--contents). 'dpkg -I foo.deb' (--info) shows you some other information about the package.