Thanks everyone for their ideas, I'll put them to good use ;-)
I just thought a Mandrake utility to do this might be nice for Newbies,
that's all....besides, I just wanted my idea for the term "Drakextract"
to get used hehe.
Cheers,
Jason
Radek Vybiral wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Brendon Oliver wrote:
>
>
>>Easy from the command line:
>>
>>rpm2cpio {file.rpm} | cpio -ivd {file/to/extract}
>>
>>I've done this several times without a hitch. It will extract the file(s) to
>>your current dir.
>>
>>You may want to check the file & path names first, in which case:
>>
>>rpm2cpio | cpio -ivt | less
>>
>>pick the file(s) you want and you're set.
>>
>
>
> Use "mc" (Midnight Commander), press Enter on the RPM package and extract
> all of files what you need...
>
> R.V.
>
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