[Tfug] Following the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in Debian

John Karns johnkarns at gmail.com
Fri Apr 18 13:38:09 MST 2008


On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Claude Rubinson <rubinson at u.arizona.edu> wrote:
>
>  Offhand, I don't know of a tool that lets you peer inside of debs but
>  I would think that it should exist.  In any case, a deb file is simply
>  an archive file and can be extracted with `ar -x $deb'.  The binaries
>  are in the data.tar.gz file.

One of my favorite tools for that is midnight commander (mc).

-- 
John




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