Quoting ael (adrian.lawre...@physics.oxon.org): > One hopes so. But I had to install the zoom deb package via root. > Since it is closed source, who knows what the package might do?
I hope you know that 'ar vx $THING.deb' unpacks $THING.deb in place, without installing it. Doing that gives you text file debian-binary with a brief package metadata statement, control.tar.gz containing md5sums and a control directory for building the package, and (last but not least) data.tar.xz, the tree of files that would be installed on your system. Or, if you just want the contents of the deb-enclosed data.tar.xz tree unpacked into the current directory with less fiddling: $ dpkg-deb -xv $THING.deb You might want to grab and sample .deb, put it in /tmp, and experiment, to see what I'm talking about. Anyway, root privilege is _not_ needed for such things. -- Cheers, Lost my car phone. Rick Moen -- Matt Watson (@biorhythmist) r...@linuxmafia.com McQ! (4x80) _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
