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[ILUG] RPM question

[ILUG] RPM question

Brendan Arthurs brenarth at relodublin.com
Fri Aug 12 16:24:18 IST 2005

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On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 04:01:04PM +0100, Ciaran Mac Lochlainn wrote:
> Is it possible to extract a single file from an RPM without installing 
> the whole package?

>From a temporary directory:

rpm2cpio $rpm_file_name | cpio -i -d

will extract the contents of the rpm to the current directory.

Regards,

Brendan

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