Run alien on them to turn them into debs! Your milage may vary but at
least then you can use dpkg to rip out the contents.
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Tony Green wrote:
> Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 10:06:14 +1100
> From: Tony Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Steven downing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Ripping files out of an RPM
>
> * Steven downing ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > The Eterm RPM that comes with Mandrake has a bunch
> > of nice tiles and backgrounds, which my Debian system
> > sadly lacks... so is it possible to rip individual or
> > selected files out of an RPM and then manually
> > shuffle them to the correct directory??
> >
> > If so, how would one go about it?
> >
> > thanks
> > Steve
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