On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 07:24:50PM -0700, Patrick Walsh wrote: > Can dpkg be used to extract a specific file from a .deb? > > None of the switches listed in the man or --help leaps out as a > candidate for this function.
Dunno about dpkg, but Midnight Commander can do it. Just fire up mc, find the deb in question, highlight it, and hit enter. Give it a second or two and mc will open the deb like it was a directory, allowing you to copy out individual files. Note: mc can do that with deb's, rpm's, tar's, gz's, tgz's, etc. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?" ICQ# 12934898 | "As far from Redmond as possible!" '91 GS500E | Morgantown WV | Only dead fish go with the flow.
