Will Lowe writes: > >I need to extract JUST ONE of the files in a .deb .... > >I've searched through the dpkg info and man pages and haven't found any >way to do this (I might be blind, though). Is there anyway to do it with >out doing > >dpkg -R /tmp/ file.deb > >and then moving the one file and clearing /tmp? > > Will
The only way I know is to use ar to pull the data.tar.gz from the .deb and then untar the file from that. ar -x <file>.deb data.tar.gz tar zxvf data.tar.gz <ONE-FILE> rm data.tar.gz There may be others? Brian -- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
