extracting from debian package?

[C M Reinehr]

On Friday 16 February 2007 11:25, 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?

Shouldn't be a problem. According to the manual .deb files are ar archives so 
you should be able to unpack the archive with whatever tool unpacks ar 
archives. Within the archive are three files: control.tar.gz, data.tar.gz, & 
debian-binary. What you want should be in data.tar.gz.

HTH

Cheers!

cmr
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