From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 12 7:49:24 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 5799637B401 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 07:49:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.web.de (smtp01.web.de [217.72.192.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB3E743EC5 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 07:49:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joerg.sonnenberger@web.de) Received: from [139.30.206.13] (helo=britannica.bec.de) by smtp.web.de with asmtp (WEB.DE(Exim) 4.93 #1) id 18MVaG-000332-00; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 16:49:08 +0100 Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 16:21:00 +0100 From: Jörg Sonnenberger To: alex@acatysmoof.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unpacking .debs on FreeBSD? Message-Id: <20021212162100.7065ae0a.joerg.sonnenberger@web.de> In-Reply-To: <20021212083642.M88830@acatysmoof.com> References: <20021212083642.M88830@acatysmoof.com> Organization: BEC Informationssysteme GmbH & Co. KG X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 01:36:42 -0700 "Alex Teslik" wrote: > Hello, > > After searching the ports and google, I'm stumped. How can I unpack a .deb on > FreeBSD? Debian packages are ar(chives) containing gzipped tarballs. Having said this, ar x $DEB data.tar.gz extracts the data part of the archive, ar x $DEB the whole archive. - Joerg > > Thanks, > Alex > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message