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 extract this source?
A search of the Linux Documentation Project at www.linuxdoc.org comes up
with the "RPM+Slackware HOWTO", which may help you.
Unlike the .deb format, for example, rpm archives cannot be easily
unpacked with normal unix tools.
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