> I'm pretty sure you can just unpack the contents of a .deb > file, but I haven't tried yet. If I'm giving bad advice, somebody > please smack me. :-) 1) ar -xf xxxx.deb 2) gunzip data.tar.gz 3) tar -xvf data.tar In your current directory, you will have all the files (and the directory structure) originally in that deb file.