Re: [Alug] Extracting RPM contents.

Douglas Willis <ddw@bas.ac.uk> wrote:

Does any one know how to extract the contents of an RPM without installing it?

ISTR rpmextr, but alien will also probably do the conversion for you.

The reason I want to do this is I have an RPM that I want to install into a customised location rather than the defaults that are scripted in the RPM install script.

Isn't there an option to RPM to install under another root? MJR