On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos at br-online.de> wrote: > Niki Kovacs wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Is there any 'explodepkg' equivalent for the rpm command? What I want is >> simply uncompress an RPM package to get the files directly, but I didn't >> find anything in rpm's manpage. > > rpm2cpio foo.rpm | cpio -i --make-directories > > *DO NOT RUN THAT IN /* I might also add: DO NOT RUN THIS AS ROOT. (just to be extra careful about things) -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell