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Date:      Thu, 12 Dec 2002 16:21:00 +0100
From:      Jörg Sonnenberger <joerg.sonnenberger@web.de>
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>

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On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 01:36:42 -0700
"Alex Teslik" <alex@acatysmoof.com> 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
> 
> 
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