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Re: [LI] Slackware and RPM



On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 12:52:25PM -0500, Subba Rao wrote:
> 
> I am a Slackware user and typically count on "tar" and "gzip" to extract packages.
> Some of the tools that I want to install are in RPM archives. How do I extract
> this source?
> 
> Thanks for any pointers.

You need rpm2cpio. man cpio on howto extract files from cpio.

cpio vs tar is another one of those vi vs emacs, kde vs gnome, GPL vs BSD
kind of things.

	-Arun

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