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Topic: How to unpack deb packages, Requires compile-3.3.5

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Juanito

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Posted: Mar. 21 2008,12:43

Here's a useful way to get at the contents of a deb package without having to load it.

Requires compile-3.3.5.uci or other package containing "ar" and assumes the deb package is in /home/dsl:

Code Sample

$ ar -p libgcc1_3.4.3-13sarge1_i386.deb data.tar.gz | tar -zvx

- the contents of the deb package will be found in /home/dsl

jaapz

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Posted: Mar. 21 2008,22:00

cool

thx, just what i needed

WDef

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Posted: Mar. 22 2008,00:37

Also: those fancying a gui solution to browse or unpack the contents of deb, rpm, and a lot of other archive formats, might like peazip.uci

I've also found that peazip can unpack .zip files I've been sent that Busybox and gnuutils unzip can't.

jpeters

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Posted: Mar. 22 2008,06:50

Quote (WDef @ Mar. 21 2008,19:37)

sweet!!

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