[ale] rpm single file extract

Ed June buggz at america.net
Sun May 30 10:02:27 EDT 1999


Scott Robertson wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Being a slackware user, I am not all that familiar with rpm.  I was
> posed a question by a friend as to extracting one file from an rpm
> distribution.  The man page does not cover single file extraction, nor
> the HOWTO.  Is this function available?, or will it be a full extraction
> to an alternate directory and then copy the file in question?
>
> RedHat 5.2 running kernel 2.2.3
> rpm version 2.5.5
>

I use mc to go inside archives of all kinds.
I use it for ftp also.
mc rewlz !


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