On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 11:12:30AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 03:31:23PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> > The debian package management system is neat but let's say you want to
> > read the docs and man page of a conflicting package. Then you must
> > drive the original package off the system to install the new package
> > just for a look, or otherwise jump thru hoops? Assume I've got the 8
> > woody CD's and no net connection. I suppose one just takes the .deb
> > file and uses dpkg-deb to see the contents...?
>
> dpkg --fsys-tarfile foo.deb | tar xO ./usr/share/man/man1/foo.1.gz | man -l -
Er. I really meant:
dpkg --fsys-tarfile foo.deb | tar xO ./usr/share/man/man1/foo.1.gz \
zcat | man -l -
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