Chris Jones wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to extract the contents of an rpm to a non-standard place (i.e. non-root) to just get access to the files.
I have in my ~/.rpmmacros
%packager %(echo "$USER") %_topdir %(echo "$HOME")/rpmbuild
and this seems to do the trick for "src" rpms. ie.
pcdn > rpm -ivh /tmp/arts-1.1.3-2.2.src.rpm
warning: /tmp/arts-1.1.3-2.2.src.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e
1:arts ########################################### [100%]
however, I want to extract the devel files, but if I try the same thing for this rpm, I get
pcdn > rpm -ivh /tmp/xmms-devel-1.2.7-22.1.p.i386.rpm
warning: /tmp/xmms-devel-1.2.7-22.1.p.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 0c98ff9d
error: cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not permitted (1)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
what do I need to do to just extract the files in the devel rpm ?
cheers Chris
Hi,
I generally do:
cd $HOME/rpmbuild rpm2cpio /tmp/xmms-devel-1.2.7-22.1.p.i386.rpm | cpio -idv
This will extract the files in the rpm archive to current directory while creating any necessary directories.
-Saurabh
