Comments on: How to extract RPM or DEB packages http://www.g-loaded.eu/2008/01/28/how-to-extract-rpm-or-deb-packages/ An open-source software and technology related journal Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:13:01 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mark http://www.g-loaded.eu/2008/01/28/how-to-extract-rpm-or-deb-packages/#comment-19310 Mark Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:27:42 +0000 http://www.g-loaded.eu/2008/01/28/how-to-extract-rpm-or-deb-packages/#comment-19310 just came in very handy, my dpkg and tar binaries were incompatible (dpkg calling tar with an unknown option), so I couldn’t use the famed dpkg-deb, I guess this is a good reason to have another way to unpack these things.

Got the tar.deb and unpacked it to get the newer tar binary, so my dpkg would work again.

]]> By: gracias http://www.g-loaded.eu/2008/01/28/how-to-extract-rpm-or-deb-packages/#comment-19301 gracias Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:18:36 +0000 http://www.g-loaded.eu/2008/01/28/how-to-extract-rpm-or-deb-packages/#comment-19301 Thanks, worked for me!

]]> By: vamsi http://www.g-loaded.eu/2008/01/28/how-to-extract-rpm-or-deb-packages/#comment-19298 vamsi Mon, 05 Mar 2012 09:59:24 +0000 http://www.g-loaded.eu/2008/01/28/how-to-extract-rpm-or-deb-packages/#comment-19298 @Benjamin, awesome!! That’s exactly what I was looking for. So I wanted to make few changes to the priority level in control file and your process is what I wanted.

Thanks @George Notaras for posting good stuff.

]]> By: koofoos http://www.g-loaded.eu/2008/01/28/how-to-extract-rpm-or-deb-packages/#comment-19271 koofoos Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:10:21 +0000 http://www.g-loaded.eu/2008/01/28/how-to-extract-rpm-or-deb-packages/#comment-19271 Any way to convert .deb packages to .rpm and vice versa, without losing the post-install scripts?

]]> By: srm http://www.g-loaded.eu/2008/01/28/how-to-extract-rpm-or-deb-packages/#comment-19145 srm Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:58:31 +0000 http://www.g-loaded.eu/2008/01/28/how-to-extract-rpm-or-deb-packages/#comment-19145 What is the use of :

debian-binary
control.tar.gz

in a .deb package. Dont we need to extract files in them too ?

]]> By: George Notaras http://www.g-loaded.eu/2008/01/28/how-to-extract-rpm-or-deb-packages/#comment-18945 George Notaras Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:54:33 +0000 http://www.g-loaded.eu/2008/01/28/how-to-extract-rpm-or-deb-packages/#comment-18945 Hi and thanks for your feedback. The binutils package is installed by default even in minimal installations on RHEL, Fedora, CentOS and Scientific Linux, so it was kind of impossible for this package to be missing. Also the following command reveals the containing RPM package:

yum provides /usr/bin/ar
]]> By: Eruva http://www.g-loaded.eu/2008/01/28/how-to-extract-rpm-or-deb-packages/#comment-18937 Eruva Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:11:28 +0000 http://www.g-loaded.eu/2008/01/28/how-to-extract-rpm-or-deb-packages/#comment-18937 It’s good to mention that ar is in binutils package.

]]> By: toto http://www.g-loaded.eu/2008/01/28/how-to-extract-rpm-or-deb-packages/#comment-18921 toto Mon, 19 Sep 2011 07:22:48 +0000 http://www.g-loaded.eu/2008/01/28/how-to-extract-rpm-or-deb-packages/#comment-18921 good tutorial and very clear description and how to solve my problem. Thank for your tutorial. My problem about how to extract rpm file is solve :)

]]> By: George Notaras http://www.g-loaded.eu/2008/01/28/how-to-extract-rpm-or-deb-packages/#comment-12376 George Notaras Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:22:50 +0000 http://www.g-loaded.eu/2008/01/28/how-to-extract-rpm-or-deb-packages/#comment-12376 Hi Jonathan. Thanks for pointing it out! The same mistake probably exists in several posts throughout the web site.

It has been corrected in the current post. Thanks :-)

]]> By: Jonathan http://www.g-loaded.eu/2008/01/28/how-to-extract-rpm-or-deb-packages/#comment-12375 Jonathan Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:11:50 +0000 http://www.g-loaded.eu/2008/01/28/how-to-extract-rpm-or-deb-packages/#comment-12375 “An one-step process” should be “a one step process.” This is because a/an is decided based on the pronunciation of the following word, not on the spelling. See: http://www.english-test.net/forum/ftopic31401.html

Thanks for the article :-).

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