Re: RPMs :o(

Mike A. Harris (mharris@ican.net)
Wed, 20 May 1998 18:51:00 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 19 May 1998, Alex Buell wrote:

> Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 17:54:37 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Alex Buell <alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk>
> To: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
> Subject: RPMs :o(
>
> I've just been given a .RPM - no tar.gz packages available :o( Is there a
> rpm to tar.gz converter out there?

rpm2cpio converts to cpio format. I dunno about a rpm2tgz
program.

Why not just install rpm, so that you can use rpm's out of the
box? It is a great package manager afterall...

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