Forwarded message: >From jdassen Sat Sep 2 15:57:23 1995 Subject: Re: question To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 2 Sep 1995 15:57:23 +0200 (MDT) In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" at Sep 2, 95 09:32:49 am Return-Receipt-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-home-page: <URL:http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/home/jdassen> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 (modified)] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 604
> Is there a way to view the contents of a *.deb package prior to installing it? Yes. You can use "dpkg-deb --contents foo.deb" to look into foo.deb. > The reason for the question is: I needed to uuencode a file and "uuencode" > was > not to be found. I assume that it is in one of the *.deb packages which I > haven't installed yet. It is in the "sharutils" package. Regards, Ray -- ART A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old. I'd be interested to hear from him. There are so many pseudos around taking his name in vain. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan -- ART A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old. I'd be interested to hear from him. There are so many pseudos around taking his name in vain. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
