On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 12:40:32AM +0800, Holden Hao wrote:
> I would have just done that but its not in the upgraded packages
> anymore. RPM should have a feature wherein you can extract one or
> several files and not necessarily install the whole package.

Have you look into rpm2cpio?

You can extract files from a binary rpm by

rpm2cpio foo.rpm | cpio -ivd

and list files by

rpm2cpio foo.rpm | cpio -t

HTH
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