On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 00:14:20 +0100 Holly Bostick wrote: > You can also do this (look inside an RPM) with: > > -Krusader (KDE file manager) > -KFM (Konqueror; at least I could under SuSE, and while you of course > don't get the SuSE-added patch functionality of being able to "Install > (the RPM) with YAST" directly from Konq, I believe the ability to open > the archive is native to Konq) > - Any GUI archive program (file-roller, KArchiver, etc).
Didn't know that, thanks (although its not a task I perform very often now thanks to gentoo) > > Simplistically speaking, an RPM is just another kind of archive, so most any > application that can look inside archives (transparently or dedicated) > can do this, for those of you who are not big terminal geeks. But even > if you're not a big term geek, mc has a lot to recommend it (especially > if you don't happen to have X available), and this is one of the > abilities that makes mc worth remembering and encourages one to use a > terminal every once in a while (or more often-- more cli applications > than one might imagine are extraordinarily functional, and that high > function makes them cooler than one might expect). IMHO mc is the killer command line app :-) people may not know that it also has built in abilities to mount filesystems over a network (smb, fish/ssh, ftp). There is heaps of coolness in there. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
