Unpacking a .deb without dpkg
25.09.2005 22:32
Today I've stumbled upon this sequence of commands that will allow you to unpack a Debian package even when dpkg isn't functional:
# cd / # ar x xxx.deb # tar xzf data.tar.gz
If I only knew this was so simple a few months ago. It would have saved me quite a few hours of unpacking packages on a functional machine and transferring files via a floppy to a crashed one.
Posted by Tomaž
| Categories: Code
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