Re: RPMs :o(

Michael H. Warfield (mhw@wittsend.com)
Tue, 19 May 1998 18:20:02 -0400 (EDT)

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.

> Cheers,
> Alex
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