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From: Tom H <tomh0665@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rpm or deb package installs
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 13:07:44
Message-Id: CAOdo=Sz70zGur-troG7V6ftaFamOkkGmO4RJacVhkjxsR4jiPg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rpm or deb package installs by Alan McKinnon
1 On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 1:30 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
2 >
3 > rpms and debs are both cpio files so the easy way is to unpack them and
4 > see what's going on:
5 >
6 > rpm2cpio name.rpm | cpio -iv --make-directories
7 > dpkg -x somepackage.deb ~/temp/
8
9 For deb packages, you can use binutils' ar; there's no need for dpkg.
10 (IIRC, if you use rpm2tar, you don't need rpm installed unlike
11 rpm2cpio, but I'm not 100% sure.)

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