Unpack an RPM

Written by James McDonald

IT Tips

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September 21, 2009

Just needed to unpack an rpm on my Ubuntu Box so I could send my brother one of the chkconfig init.d scripts.

To do it required the following:

sudo apt-get install rpm # need this for rpm2cpio utility
rpm2cpio therpmyouwantounpack.rpm | cpio -idmv

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