On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 19:15 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote: > On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 12:35 -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 18:43 -0500, Robert L Cochran wrote: > > > Can someone tell me how to extract just one or two files from an RPM? > > > > > > > I believe cpio does this. > > When used in conjunction with rpm2cpio (which there is a brief manpage > for). > When faced with this kind of problem, you can also use the "apropos" command or its equivalent, "man -k" (for keyword). In this case: [rpaiz@rodolfo ~]$ apropos cpio cpio (1) - copy files to and from archives rpm2cpio (8) - Extract cpio archive from RPM Package Manager (RPM) package [rpaiz@rodolfo ~]$ apropos rpm RPM2 (3pm) - Perl bindings for the RPM Package Manager API rpm2cpio (8) - Extract cpio archive from RPM Package Manager (RPM) package rpm (8) - RPM Package Manager rpmbuild (8) - Build RPM Package(s) rpmdeps (8) - Generate RPM Package Dependencies RPM::Specfile (3pm) - Perl extension for creating RPM Specfiles Both commands yield very useful output. Cheers, -- Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
