Re: MC and .deb files (was Re: extract only PART of an archive)

1997-09-29 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remco van de Meent) writes: > There is a .deb file of the latest Midnight Commander (4.1) at > ftp.nuclecu.unam.mx. For convenience, I put it on > >ftp://oloon.student.utwente.nl/pub/linux/misc/ > > too. > The "mc_4.1-0.1_i386.deb" on "ftp://ftp.nuclecu.unam.mx

Re: MC and .deb files (was Re: extract only PART of an archive)

1997-09-29 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, David Wright wrote: [about MC and .deb files] There is a .deb file of the latest Midnight Commander (4.1) at ftp.nuclecu.unam.mx. For convenience, I put it on ftp://oloon.student.utwente.nl/pub/linux/misc/ too. bye, Remco -- // Remco van de Meent //

MC and .deb files (was Re: extract only PART of an archive)

1997-09-29 Thread David Wright
On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: > I use Midnight Commander for this. It has a feature that lets you "dive" > into a .deb file (it may require a patch to mc.ext, see below) and "view" > the contents. You can also copy any file you see "out" to another > directory using Midnight Commander.

Re: extract only PART of an archive

1997-09-28 Thread Paul Wade
On Sun, 28 Sep 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > I've searched through the dpkg info and man pages and haven't found any > >> > way to do this (I might be blind, though). Is there anyway to do it with > >> > out doing > >> > > >> > dpkg -R /tmp/ file.deb > >> > > >> > and then moving the one

Re: extract only PART of an archive

1997-09-28 Thread liiwi
>> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Sep 28 14:58:51 1997 >> Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> > I need to extract JUST ONE of the files in a .deb >> > >> > I've searched through the dpkg info and man pages and haven't found any >> > way to do this (I might be blind, though). Is there anyway to

Re: extract only PART of an archive

1997-09-27 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Will Lowe wrote: > I need to extract JUST ONE of the files in a .deb > > I've searched through the dpkg info and man pages and haven't found any > way to do this (I might be blind, though). Is there anyway to do it with > out doing > > dpkg -R /tmp/ file.deb > > and t

Re: extract only PART of an archive

1997-09-27 Thread Klee Dienes
Brian K Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Will Lowe writes: > >I need to extract JUST ONE of the files in a .deb > > The only way I know is to use ar to pull the data.tar.gz from the .deb > and then untar the file from that. > > [...] > > There may be others? The 'official' way to do th

Re: extract only PART of an archive

1997-09-27 Thread Joey Hess
Brian K Servis wrote: > The only way I know is to use ar to pull the data.tar.gz from the .deb > and then untar the file from that. > > ar -x .deb data.tar.gz > tar zxvf data.tar.gz > rm data.tar.gz > > There may be others? Well, this gets rid of the temp files: ar p file.deb data.tar.gz | ta

Re: extract only PART of an archive

1997-09-27 Thread Brian K Servis
Will Lowe writes: > >I need to extract JUST ONE of the files in a .deb > >I've searched through the dpkg info and man pages and haven't found any >way to do this (I might be blind, though). Is there anyway to do it with >out doing > >dpkg -R /tmp/ file.deb > >and then moving the one file and

extract only PART of an archive

1997-09-26 Thread Will Lowe
I need to extract JUST ONE of the files in a .deb I've searched through the dpkg info and man pages and haven't found any way to do this (I might be blind, though). Is there anyway to do it with out doing dpkg -R /tmp/ file.deb and then moving the one file and clearing /tmp?