On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 03:09:32AM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:

>Else can someone please suggest a util which will convert a .deb to 
>.tgz?
>Else can someone please tell me if there is some util for Slackware 
>which would allow me to unDeb those files?
>

The following lost tip is what u have to do.

Peace

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Rajesh
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####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]###########################

Sub : Contents of .deb file [#1]                     LOST #014

To know the contents of a .deb file in systems without dpkg do
'$ar -x foo.deb' ... This  gives  a  file "data.tar.gz"  which 
contains the packaged files. Then to view the tarball with:
'$tar -ztvf data.tar.gz | less'

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