Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 May 1998 21:24:27 -0300 | From | (Paulo F. Sedrez) | Subject | Re: OFFTOPIC: Re: RPMs :o( |
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>Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 21:46:29 -0500 (CDT) >From: Sean Kelly <smkelly@zombie.org> >To: "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw@wittsend.com> >cc: alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu >Subject: OFFTOPIC: Re: RPMs :o( > >On Tue, 19 May 1998, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > >>Alex Buell enscribed thusly: >> >>> I've just been given a .RPM - no tar.gz packages available :o( Is there a >>> rpm to tar.gz converter out there? >> >> There is an rpm2cpio utility on readhat which will take an rpm >>file and extract its core cpio package. You can then use cpio to extract >>the file. >> >I've also seen a program called 'alien' which is a generic package >converter and converts .deb's, .rpm's, .tgz's, and god knows what else :) >You can find it in the LSM I believe.
Look at http://www.slackare.org/utils, there is a utility called rpmtar-install, which converts .deb and .rpm to tar.gz, installs and more... --- Paulo Francisco Sedrez sedrez@tecgraf.puc-rio.br TeCGraf/PUC-Rio Rua Marques de Sao Vicente 225, Anexo RDC 22453-900 Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brasil (021) 529-9424
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