.deb package are just the tar archives but with a proper structural format of files. You can see and extract any deb package with archive manager tool. From the dpkg-deb man page: “dpkg-deb packs, unpacks and provides information about Debian archives. .deb files can also be manipulated with ar and tar alone if necessary
Use following command to get the list of files within .deb package (Use the ‘x’ option to extract the files)
# ar tv python2.4-setuptools_0.6a1-2_all.deb
rw-r--r-- 0/0 4 Aug 24 22:10 2005 debian-binary
rw-r--r-- 0/0 2024 Aug 24 22:10 2005 control.tar.gz
rw-r--r-- 0/0 168407 Aug 24 22:10 2005 data.tar.gz
The ‘data.tar.gz’ file contains all the files that will be installed with their destination paths:
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Hi Dude,
The best and the easier way to extract .deb files to Linux is to download the alien binary package and convert the .deb file to rpm and make your life easier. Thanks for sharing this type of nice idea.....
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This is nice idea. I tried in other ways but this is the simpler way to get it extracted.
Thanks alot Nikesh.
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