you can do it without a debian-ish system
ex: ar x <package>.deb
that'll dump a few files in your pwd:
control.tar.gz
data.tar.gz
debian-binary
debian-binary only lists the version of the package, you can safely
ignore it
control.tar.gz - install-ish scripts
data.tar.gz - all the actual files for the package
On Nov 29, 2006, at 10:34 AM, Nathan England wrote:
>
> Very greatful. Thank you much.
>
>
> On Wednesday 29 November 2006 10:29, you wrote:
>> dpkg -X <packagename>
>>
>> On 11/29/06, Nathan England <nathan@paysonlinux.org> wrote:
>>> All,
>>>
>>> I downloaded a trial of MainActor which comes in debain or suse.
>>> I don't
>>> have
>>> either and so I downloaded the debian package. I can't figure out
>>> how to
>>> extract the contents of the archive so i can try them in my system.
>>>
>>> I have a ubuntu cd running so I can access the apt tools, but how
>>> do I
>>> extract
>>> the package?
>>>
>>> nathan
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