On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 14:22 -0500, Dallas Clement wrote:
> Can somebody tell me what the difference is between these two commands?
>
> I'm assuming both should work with a .deb package...
The man page sez:
dpkg-deb packs, unpacks and provides information about Debian
archives.
Use dpkg to install and remove packages from your system.
You can also invoke dpkg-deb by calling dpkg with whatever
options you want to pass to dpkg-deb. dpkg will spot that you
wanted dpkg-deb and run it for you.
In general dpkg deals with the database of packages that are already
installed on the system, including installing/uninstalling, and dpkg-deb
manipulates .deb packages (builds them, lists their contents, etc.)
HTH!
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