Rik Burt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have figured out how to get the raw tar.gz files for the dpkg > package.
Do you mean the file data.tar.gz? Or did you download source code? > How do I know where to put these files once I get them > ungzipped and untarred? `tar tzvf data.tar.gz' will give you a table of contents. For example, if I do this on the data.tar.gz file from ae_962-23_i386.deb: jekyll:~$ tar tzvf data.tar.gz drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1999-04-17 13:48:11 ./ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1999-04-17 13:48:11 usr/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1999-04-17 13:48:10 usr/doc/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1999-04-17 13:48:11 usr/doc/ae/ [...] As you can infer, this is a listing which is relative to the root directory. So: tar -xzv -C / -f data.tar.gz will extract the contents of the file in the root directory. Please note that you should *only* do this in an emergency! -- Greg Wooledge | "Truth belongs to everybody." [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Red Hot Chili Peppers, http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ |
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