Extracting a file out of a RPM archive?

Forum: Apps
Topic: Extracting a file out of a RPM archive?
started by: RigasW

Posted by RigasW on June 23 2007,20:46

Hi,

In order to get the file "libwma.so" , I have to get it out of an rpm archive.

I read something about rpm2cpio, but could not find it in DSL.

Any ideas?

rigas

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on June 23 2007,21:23

I think some extraction apps could do the job such as "p7zip" if you can't find the rpm utils. There's also alien to convert rpm -> deb

And there's some more info in a forum search.

Posted by jpeters on June 24 2007,05:12

Quote (^thehatsrule^ @ June 23 2007,17:23)

There's also alien to convert rpm -> deb

Also converts to tgz, which worked for me when conversion to deb did not.

Alien installs with apt-get.