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Chapter 4. General Utilities

rpmextract-1.0

Introduction to rpmextract

The rpmextract package provides tools for extracting .rpm files.

rpmextract Dependencies

Required

libarchive

Downloading rpmextract

To download the rpmextract files with wget, run the following instructions: 

mkdir rmpextract-1.0 &&
cd    rmpextract-1.0 &&
for i in {rpm2cpio,rpmextract.sh}; do
  echo $i | wget -i- -c \
    -B https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/rpmextract/-/raw/main/
done

Installation of rpmextract

Install rpmextract by executing the following commands as the root user: 

install -vm755 rpm2cpio rpmextract.sh /usr/bin &&
ln -sfv rpmextract.sh /usr/bin/rpmextract

Contents

Installed Programs: rpm2cpio, rpmextract (link to rpmextract.sh), and rpmextract.sh
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

rpm2cpio

converts an RPM file to a CPIO archive

rpmextract

symlink pointing to rpmextract.sh

rpmextract.sh

extracts RPM files