Debian Package extraction

[Anthony Boynes]

Nathan England 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
>   


dpkg -x some.deb /somedir