extracting from debian package?

[Leon Goldstein]

Jorge Almeida wrote:

>I downloaded a debian package, which must contain some text files I want
>to look at. I don't have a debian system, and I don't care for the
>binaries, only text files.
>
>$ file runit-services_0.2.3_all.deb
>runit-services_0.2.3_all.deb: Debian binary package (format 2.0)
>
>Is there any way at all to achieve this?
>
>  
>
Easy: ar -x runit-services_0.2.3_all.deb

Output is a data.tar.gz and a control.tar.gz.
I can browse these with konqueror.

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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