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Re: Partial rpm -i



Eli Marmor wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> I RTFM, but didn't find anyhting:
> How can I extract a specific file from an RPM?
> 
> The only method I found, was to create a temporary directory, use
> --prefix, and then move the specific file to its real location,
> instead of the old. But it is not convenience, and supports only
> relocatable RPMs.

I have no solution from the command line. Midnight commander, however,
lets you browse the contents of an rpm package, and you can then
transparently copy files from it.

Tuvik
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