[NBLUG/talk] Extracting a file from a rpm

[Todd Cary]

Eric -

Many thanks.  Worked as advertised.  I needed the file for the 
instllation of Thunderbird on FC3.

Todd

Eric Eisenhart wrote:

>On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 07:17:47AM -0800, Todd Cary wrote:
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>>I have xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.1-12.i386.rpm on my system and I 
>>need libXp.so.6.  What is the syntax to get this file from the rpm?
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>Well, usually it's best to install the entire RPM with something like
>"rpm -ihv" or "rpm -Uhv".
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>But assuming that you really need to extract just one single file from an
>RPM, try running this in /tmp (or someplace else where a bunch of
>directories being created is harmless):
>rpm2cpio xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.1-12.i386.rpm | cpio -idv *libXp.so*
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