Re: using dpkg to "see" the contents of a package

Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Gertjan Klein wrote: [Upgrading mc] >> Why? My current version works for me - are the later versions so much >> better? > Yes. 3.5.17-1 has real troubles - in particular it is slow and the screen > flashes black at times. Th

ANNOUNCE: deb-view.el [was: using dpkg to "see" the contents of a package]

I thought I'd mention my Emacs deb file browser since the MC capability has been discussed recently. In June 1996 I wrote a deb file browser for emacs. I hope it will be made obsolete by the deity project but it may be of use to some people until then. There aren't any package install features

Re: using dpkg to "see" the contents of a package

On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Gertjan Klein wrote: > > Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > IIRC you add this snippet to /etc/mc/mc.ext > > > regex/\.deb$ > > Open=%cd deb:%d/%p/ > > View=%view{ascii} dpkg-deb -c %f > > Yes, that works! Great! It is really nice to be

Re: using dpkg to "see" the contents of a package

Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IIRC you add this snippet to /etc/mc/mc.ext > regex/\.deb$ > Open=%cd deb:%d/%p/ > View=%view{ascii} dpkg-deb -c %f Yes, that works! Great! It is really nice to be able to browse inside the packages on the CD-ROM, especially the

Re: using dpkg to "see" the contents of a package

On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Gertjan Klein wrote: > Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I heavily use mc to enter a deb package. Then I can even examine the > > contents of the files inside without the need of dpkg --extract. It is > > pretty neat. > > How do you do this? My mc (3

Re: using dpkg to "see" the contents of a package

Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I heavily use mc to enter a deb package. Then I can even examine the > contents of the files inside without the need of dpkg --extract. It is > pretty neat. How do you do this? My mc (3.5.17, from Debian 1.3.1) doesn't seem to support .deb pac

Re: using dpkg to "see" the contents of a package

On Sat, 15 Nov 1997, Tim Ferrell wrote: > I am new to Debian, so this may be a somewhat stupid question... Is > there a way to use dpkg to list the contents, etc. of a package that is > not installed? I like to see what it is I am installing first, and when > I used rpm I could query the contents

Re: using dpkg to "see" the contents of a package

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: | Look at the results of dpkg-deb --help. The -c or -I options may |be what you want. 'dpkg -c package.deb' is the command the original poster is looking for. The nice thing about .deb files is that they use standard UNIX formats - ar(1) and tar(1),

Re: using dpkg to "see" the contents of a package

Look at the results of dpkg-deb --help. The -c or -I options may be what you want. Bob Tim Ferrell wrote: > I am new to Debian, so this may be a somewhat stupid question... Is > there a way to use dpkg to list the contents, etc. of a package that is > not installed? I like to see what it is

Re: using dpkg to "see" the contents of a package

> I am new to Debian, so this may be a somewhat stupid question... Is > there a way to use dpkg to list the contents, etc. of a package that is > not installed? I like to see what it is I am installing first, and when > I used rpm I could query the contents first. Is there a dpkg equivalent? dpkg

using dpkg to "see" the contents of a package

I am new to Debian, so this may be a somewhat stupid question... Is there a way to use dpkg to list the contents, etc. of a package that is not installed? I like to see what it is I am installing first, and when I used rpm I could query the contents first. Is there a dpkg equivalent? Thanks! Tim