Re: [Sheflug] rpm to tar

[Will Newton <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 24 Sep 2001 6:40 pm, you wrote:

> Hi all just a quick one I think.
> I bought the Linux format magazine which has KYLIX on it.
> It's in rpm.
> Is there a way to convert it to tar so that I can install it on Slakware8.0
> ?
> Or will i have to download it in tarball ?

If you don't like the other suggestions (which are perfectly good) you can 
use rpm2cpio (or rpmcpio, I forget) to convert the archive to cpio format, 
and then extract it with cpio.
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