On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Jeremy Gaddis wrote:
> As far as extracting Debian package files ("*.deb's") goes,
> I've found the easiest way is to use "alien" (apt-get install
> alien) and convert it to a tarball ("*.tar.gz").
>
Why go that way?
$ mkdir /tmp/foo
$ dpkg -X foo.deb /tmp/foo
Greetz,
Sebastiaan
> -jg
> --
> Jeremy L. Gaddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Jiang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 2:25 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: how to extract *.deb files, etc.
>
>
> I am new to Linux (especially Debian), please help me out.
>
> 1. Does anyone can tell me how to extract *.deb files? And where can I
> find Debian's special commands?
>
> 2. I have just installed Debian 2.2 r0 (potato), but XF86 did not work
> (don't have SVGA driver - returned message at first time). So, I used VGA16
> driver during XF86Setup (second time), the setup program told me
> successfully installed XF86 but it failed after I press ok to continue.
>
> Thanks for your attention.
>
> Regards
> Stephen
>
