Nils Philippsen wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Laurel Fan wrote:
>
> > Excerpts from linuxchix: 5-Dec-99 [techtalk] Slackware and RPM by Subba
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> > > I am a Slackware user and typically count on "tar" and "gzip" to 3~
> > &g
Excerpts from linuxchix: 6-Dec-99 Re: [techtalk] Slackware an.. by Nils
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> Unless you count perl as a normal unix tool. On
> http://www.iagora.com/~espel/rpm2cpio you can see how to grab the cpio.gz
> out of the rpm in perl -- rpm is just a cpio.gz with a header.
Well, technical
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Laurel Fan wrote:
> Excerpts from linuxchix: 5-Dec-99 [techtalk] Slackware and RPM by Subba
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> > I am a Slackware user and typically count on "tar" and "gzip" to 3~
> > extract packages.
> > Some of the tool
> I am a Slackware user and typically count on "tar" and "gzip" to
> extract packages. Some of the tools that I want to install are in RPM
> archives. How do I extract this source?
Sounds like what you want is alien (http://kitenet.net/programs/alien/).
Here's the freshmeat appindex record:
Ali
Excerpts from linuxchix: 5-Dec-99 [techtalk] Slackware and RPM by Subba
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> I am a Slackware user and typically count on "tar" and "gzip" to 3~
> extract packages.
> Some of the tools that I want to install are in RPM archives.
> How do I extra
I am a Slackware user and typically count on "tar" and "gzip" to extract packages.
Some of the tools that I want to install are in RPM archives. How do I extract
this source?
Thanks for any pointers.
Subba Rao
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