Extracting an rpm

Submitted by hpn on November 28, 2006 - 06:07
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Its been quite a while since I used fedora or distributions using rpms, but needed to extract [:http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/fedora/devel/s390/fonts-kannada-2.0.6-1.no…|this package] on debian to check out the fonts. [:http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-to-extract-an-rpm-package-without-ins…|A little tip] about a little utility called rpm2cpio helped. Here's what I used: $ rpm2cpio fonts-kannada-2.0.6-1.noarch.rpm | cpio -idmv