From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 12 7:40:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B028737B407 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 07:40:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D339243EDC for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 07:40:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) id gBCFe83x069766; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 09:40:08 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 09:40:08 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Alex Teslik Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: unpacking .debs on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20021212154008.GB7232@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20021212083642.M88830@acatysmoof.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021212083642.M88830@acatysmoof.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-RC X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Dec 12), Alex Teslik said: > Hello, > > After searching the ports and google, I'm stumped. How can I unpack a > .deb on FreeBSD? .deb files are just ar archive files, same format as usr/lib/libc.a. You can view the file list with "ar t file.deb", and extract the contents with "ar x file.deb". -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message