Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 May 1998 23:54:40 +0100 (BST) | From | Peter Horton <> | Subject | Re: RPMs :o( |
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On Tue, 19 May 1998, Alex Buell wrote:
> I've just been given a .RPM - no tar.gz packages available :o( Is there a > rpm to tar.gz converter out there?
RPMs are basically gzipped cpio archives with a header.
If you search the file for the byte 0x1f followed by 0x8b (these bytes mark a gzip file) and remove everything that precedes them, you will be left a gzipped cpio archive, which you can then unzip and unpack.
P.
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