Extracting '.rpm' in YaST.

rlhanson · 03-24-2006, 11:18 AM

HI;

I there a way that I can Extract a '.rpm' in YaST and have it extract a package into a specified folder?

sub_pop_culture · 03-25-2006, 10:30 AM

This script http://www.fship.com/demos/rpm2targz, will convert an RPM into a simple tar.gz archive, which you can then extract into which ever directory you wish.

[code]localhost:~ $ wget http://www.fship.com/demos/rpm2targz
localhost:~ $ chmod u+x rpm2targz
localhost:~ $ ./rpm2targz file.rpm
localhost:~ $ tar xzvf file.tar.gz

rlhanson · 03-25-2006, 11:16 AM

Hi;
Distribution: SuSE 10.0
Project: Compilation of MPlayer
This is all well and good but there is one other small problem that I am having. When I try to extract a file using 'arc' or 'file roller' I'm told that I do not have the 'right permissions to archive to folder' this is after I have logged in as 'root'. When I try to extract the file using 'YaST' the file is extracted out in cyberspace somewhere. It has turned out to be just one big circle jerk.

sub_pop_culture · 03-26-2006, 10:57 PM

Are you installing a src.rpm or a i386.rpm? If its src.rpm, the file contents get dumped into /usr/src/redhat (on my FC5 system). I'd assume SuSE puts them in a similar type location?