On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 09:35:37AM +0530, Binand Raj S. wrote:

>Rajesh Fowkar forced the electrons to say:
>Even I have been doing some experiments with .deb files. I downloaded
>one .deb (actually, mutt_1.2.5-4.deb) and unpacked it, trying to figure
>out what the packaging method actually does (I am on RedHat). 
>
>Here are my findings. This method might work:
>
>.deb files are actually ar(1) archives. You can get the individual files
>out by ar x <.deb filename>. What I got were the following files:

Thanks Binand. I will try to hack the .deb file as per your suggestions.


Regards

--
Rajesh Fowkar


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