On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Laurel Fan wrote:
> Excerpts from linuxchix: 5-Dec-99 [techtalk] Slackware and RPM by Subba
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 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.
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.
Nils
--
Nils Philippsen / Berliner Strasse 39 / D-71229 Leonberg / +49.7152.209647
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be
regarded as a criminal offence. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra
************
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
