On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 13:02, 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. > > Unfortunately, dpkg --unpack complains about root > access just as --install does. BOO! > > I just want the thing unrolled, that's it. > > How do I do this? Help page turns up nothing.
Use fakeroot (actually I am not sure if dpkg works with fakeroot $ man fakeroot). Or set sudo. -- David Moreno Garza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * There's no place like 127.0.0.1 http://www.damog.net/ Ciudad de México, México.
