RPM: how do i un-pack an rpm without installing ...

[James Don]

Thank you all ...

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Hatle [mailto:fray at mvista.com]
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 8:19 PM
To: James Don
Cc: linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: RPM: how do i un-pack an rpm without installing ...


James Don wrote:
> Sorry,
> Not really a topic for this group but ...
>
> how do i un-pack an rpm without installing it?

Use "rpm2cpio" to produce a cpio archive, and then use cpio to extract it.

"rpm2cpio <rpm> | cpio -id" works for me.

--Mark


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