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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, sze wee neo wrote:

> 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.

You need to install mc before mc-menu.  I used mini-mc which is provided
by JP at his site (see the link to his site for add-on packages). mc-menu
will convert rpm or deb to tgz packages.  The one thing I tried it on did
not work - said it was not a correct rpm file.  Slackware also provides
unrpm which also did not work on that file (it made a very small output
file).

I can unpack .deb files with ar +x filename.deb.  The data.tar.gz file 
(one of three it produces) can be unpacked manually after that.  I made a 
package of ar (from one of the larger slackware packages) and its 
dependencies - James do you want to post that at your site?