Cracking Open an RPM

[James McDonald]

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.
>
what about using the rpm --root /tmp/ -ivh package.rpm to shift the 
install and then grab the files you need?