[ALUG] How to get files out of an rpm package?

[Dave Crisp]

On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 17:02 +0100, ted.harding at nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:

> An RPM package is basically a wrapped-up CPIO archive.
> 
> You should probably have (and if not, get it from somewhere)
> the program rpm2cpio.

Note that the standard binary rpm2cpio needs the rest of the rpm package
installed in order to work.

What you want is the perl script available at

http://linuxmafia.com/pub/linux/utilities-general/rpm2cpio