On Sun, 14 Sep 2008, Niki Kovacs wrote: > 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. Since I hate the cpio tool, I always use mc (midnight commander) and go inside of the RPM files to copy something out. If you just want to see what is inside the RPMs, adding a -v to the query shows you the output as if it was a directory-listing: rpm -qplv <rpm packages> Kind regards, -- -- dag wieers, dag at centos.org, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]