Cracking Open an RPM

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, 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.

rpm2cpio is most likely what you want.

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