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05-04-2012, 05:24 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Apr 2012
Posts: 15
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Can i open a linux deb file with windows?
Can i open a linux deb file with windows? Im wanting to put some software onto my usb stick from a linux mint machine and be able to open it on windows. Hear that the 7 zip archive software will allow me to run the deb file extension on my windows pc is this correct? if not is it even possible to do this??
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05-04-2012, 05:55 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Nov 2010
Location: Colorado
Distribution: OpenSUSE, CentOS
Posts: 5,573
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Highly doubtful
Some linux software can run in Cygwin in Windows, that's probably your only option. What software are you wanting to run?
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05-04-2012, 06:01 PM
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LQ 5k Club
Registered: Aug 2005
Distribution: OpenSuse, Fedora, Redhat, Debian
Posts: 5,399
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Strictly speaking, any file can be opened. After that, it depends on what you want to do with it.
If you want to install any of the content of a deb file on a Windows host, it will almost certainly not make sense. There is very little likelihood that any Windows tool know how to break down the contents of a deb file in anything like the way it was intended.
--- rod.
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05-04-2012, 08:44 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: May 2010
Location: Palm Island
Distribution: RHEL, CentOS, Debian, Oracle Solaris 10
Posts: 1,420
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You can use AnytoISO software and extract the contents of debian package in windows very easily.
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