On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 1:30 AM, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> wrote: > > rpms and debs are both cpio files so the easy way is to unpack them and > see what's going on: > > rpm2cpio name.rpm | cpio -iv --make-directories > dpkg -x somepackage.deb ~/temp/
For deb packages, you can use binutils' ar; there's no need for dpkg. (IIRC, if you use rpm2tar, you don't need rpm installed unlike rpm2cpio, but I'm not 100% sure.)
