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[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 09:19:38PM -0700, Daniel Robitaille wrote:

> > 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.

Alternatively, on a Debian system:

dpkg -x <deb> <dir>

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 - mdz