On Fri, 13 Feb 2015 21:08:55 +0000 (UTC), James wrote: > > I doubt dpkg and rpm aren't going to be much use to you, unless you > > really want to run two package managers. Besides, both are not > > especially useful with the front ends apt* and yum. > > I'd just use those to unpackage and maybe preprocess some of the codes. > > Agreed. I do not want a full blown deb or rpm package manager just > a way to install and evaluate some of those codes before beginning a > more arduous and comprehensive task.
In that case you ware deb2targz or rpm2targz to convert the package to a tarball. then you can unpack it and inspect the contents. -- Neil Bothwick If it ain't broke, break it and charge for repair.
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