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Date:      Thu, 12 Dec 2002 09:40:08 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Alex Teslik <alex@acatysmoof.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: unpacking .debs on FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <20021212154008.GB7232@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20021212083642.M88830@acatysmoof.com>
References:  <20021212083642.M88830@acatysmoof.com>

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In the last episode (Dec 12), Alex Teslik said:
> Hello,
> 
> After searching the ports and google, I'm stumped. How can I unpack a
> .deb on FreeBSD?

.deb files are just ar archive files, same format as usr/lib/libc.a. 
You can view the file list with "ar t file.deb", and extract the
contents with "ar x file.deb".

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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