Cracking Open an RPM

[Aaron Grewell]

If memory serves, you should be able to use cpio for this.

On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 10:10, Leon Goldstein wrote:
> How does one disassemble an RPM?  I want to extract some files from a 
> SuSE RPM without installing them.
> My project is trying to resurrect WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux, 
> which dies when glibc 2.3.2 is installed.
> I want to put the older compatible glibc in a system with glibc 2.3.2 
> and set the environment variable for the WPO2KL
> start up script to load the older lib.
> 
> With Debian, ar -x will do the trick, but this does not seem to work in 
> SuSE.