On Mon, Jun 24, 2024, at 11:23 PM, Tim via users wrote:
On Mon, 2024-06-24 at 19:48 -0700, Mike Wright wrote:
I can't dissect a .rpm but I know how to dissect a .deb so I installed totem onto Ubuntu 24.04 (latest release) so I could take it apart.
You can open them in an archive manager (treating them the same as zip files, and various other archive formats). Allowing you to see the contents, and interact with some of them).
And you can list the contents from the command line.
e.g. rpm -qlp packagename.rpm
Just adding my saved note on how it can be done:
Pull files out of an rpm without installing it: mkdir foo ; cp file.rpm foo ; cd foo rpm2cpio - < file.rpm | cpio --extract --no-absolute-filenames --make-directories