Re: rpm question

["Ralph M. Deal" <deal@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Dirk H Bartley wrote:

> I have executed rpm on a package file with
> 
> rpm -qpl ./xxx-ver.rpm
> 
> it gives me a list of files it contains quite well.

Wish I had known that earlier.  I've been trying to compile programs that
require particular versions of utilities which are imbedded in rpm files.
Can one do this on an uninstalled rpm?  Should read the rpm man pages, I
know.
 
> For the life of me I can't find in the man page what the command is to extract a
> file from this rpm.  Can anyone help.
> 
> I'm looking for  something like:
> rpm -?p? ./packagefilename filetoextract locationtoextract
> 
> I'm sure I remember this is possible.  Thanks in advance.

Looking forward to responses,   Ralph  deal@kzoo.edu