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["sze wee neo" <neoszewee AT gmx.net>]

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> I've done a search through the archives and found two threads mentioning
> RPM packages. One was in reference to using disrpm to essentialy extract
> all the files and paths out of the RPM (I'm assuming at least). The other
> was very recently in mentioning the useage of rpm2tgz and getting
> extremely incorrect filesizes. I've tried both options now. I know, RPM
> sucks big time. Unfortunately, it's the only method I have available of
> using the package I have. The package is a driver for a piece of hardware
> in my BL system and no other package option is available. Neither option
> seems to work. I even tried installing the rpm.tgz package and using it to
> just see what's in the package, but it says it's only useable with
> packages with a version number <= 3. I'm guessing the package I have is
> greater than 3. Is there any other option for extracting the data in an
> RPM package?

Disrpm should work with rpm version number <= 3 or >3. If I am not wrong 
version <= 3 is used by Redhat, version > 3 is used by Suse and PLD.
Alternatively, 
search for a package with a name "mc-menu" in Google. This contains binaries
for extract files from rpm(<=3) and deb packages.

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