On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Niki Kovacs <contact at kikinovak.net> 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. RPM is simply a cpio archive with some additional voodoo. You can use rpm2cpio, and then extract the cpio to your directory. There are a couple examples of doing this in the centos wiki in the tips and tricks section. -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell