Debian Package extraction

[der.hans]

Am 29. Nov, 2006 schwätzte Nathan England so:

> 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?

Use alien to turn it into a tarball. Alien will also convert to RPM if
that's what you need.

ciao,

der.hans
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