Debian Package extraction

[Nathan England]

Very greatful. Thank you much.


On Wednesday 29 November 2006 10:29, you wrote:
> dpkg -X <packagename>
>
> On 11/29/06, Nathan England <nathan at 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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