On Feb 1, 2013, at 11:56 AM, Ali Corbin <ali.corbin at gmail.com> wrote: >>>> The command line way of getting 1 file out of a rpm is to rpm2cpio. >>>> >>>> rpm2cpio <rpmfilename> > <filename.cpio> >>>> >>>> Now you have a cpio archive which you can use to get files out of. >>> Or: >>> >>> rpm2cpio <rpmfilename> | cpio -idv >>> > > And one more: > > To extract a single file from a package > > rpm2cpio gnupg-1.2.6-6.src.rpm | cpio -ivd gnupg.spec I know it's petty, but every time I realize I need to use cpio to do this, it really annoys me. This is the only present day use of cpio I'm aware of. Todd