Cracking Open an RPM

[Klaus-Peter Schrage]

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.

Midnite Commander is your friend - in mc simply navigate to your rpm, 
hit 'enter', go to CONTENTS.cpio, navigate to the file you want to 
extract, and copy.
Klaus