[sclug] Extracting Files from RPMs

[Rus Foster]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Ifor Lewis wrote:

> Hi sclug-List,
>
> I'll make it to a meet on of these days...
>
> Quick question: Does anyone know if possible / how to extract files from an
> RPM archive without actually installing the thing? This would be useful to
> me.
>

Well one method is to install alien which can make rpm into a slackware
tgz which you can then just unpack. I'm sure there is a way to just do it
with rpm but alisen does work

Rgds

Rus

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