Comments on: How To Extract an RPM Package Without Installing It (rpm extract command)

By: Netra chhetri

Netra chhetri — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:41:28 +0000

Yap it works !!! i tried to convert prefix of the rpm so i unpack diffmerger rpm and repack using mavn-shell plugin and this rpm2cpio help me moving packages as i wanted !

Great Article :
cheers

By: Marian Csontos

Marian Csontos — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:06:33 +0000

The rpmpeek tool from rpmdevtools looks great:

SYNOPSIS
       rpmpeek [-h] RPM command [args...]
DESCRIPTION
       rpmpeek unpacks RPM contents into a temporary directory and executes a
       command under that directory.  The directory is purged upon exit.

By: toto

toto — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 07:20:10 +0000

good tutorial and very clear description and how to solve my problem. Thank for your tutorial. My problem about how to extract rpm file is solve :)

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 23:54:22 +0000

use an alternate of the above with the following
rpm2cpio | xz -d | cpio -idmv

By: liju

liju — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 04:06:46 +0000

install Pzip from “www.peazip.org/” and get it done easily.

The above command will not work as it showing “premature end of archive ” on Centos 5.6 32 bit architechure.

By: Blurry

Blurry — Fri, 13 May 2011 02:37:33 +0000

Now if i could edit said script…

By: Blurry

Blurry — Fri, 13 May 2011 02:18:38 +0000

Sorry to dig up an old thread, but…

The free 7-zip does this too… It opens .rpm, you can see the .cpio, which it also opens, & you see the dir structure to browse.

Or just extract from the get go… Cant see the scripts though, which is what i came here looking for, so my thanks to you Vivek!

Blurry
Australia

By: jagan

jagan — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:44:36 +0000

Excellent Post. Thank You very much.

I extracted my rpm using rpm2cpio myrpmfile.rpm | cpio -idmv .

Is ther a way to invoke some scripts from thei extracted folder.
Ex; I have a execute.py under scripts folder of above rpm. This need to be run automatically once we extarcted the rpm.

By: John Braunhag

John Braunhag — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:26:05 +0000

This is awesome, thank you so much!

By: soran

soran — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 14:13:35 +0000

Thank,That is what I am looking for

By: e!

e! — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:34:33 +0000

*THUMBS UP* :-)

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:38:44 +0000

I tried to extract a newer RPM (from Fedora 13 repository) on my Fedora 10 box and it wouldn’t work. The rpm2cpio program would not create a valid cpio file. I tried alien and it wouldn’t work either. I then did a “yum update rpm” and it downloaded the latest rpm package and that solved the problem.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 19 May 2010 11:09:06 +0000

Not with all packages; rpm executes [pre/post][install/uninstall] scripts contained in the rpm…

By: maghat

maghat — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:52:34 +0000

Thank you too. This post helped me a lot.

By: Pete Wilson

Pete Wilson — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:34:23 +0000

Fantastic! The command line as you gave it worked perfectly: 100% correct, unlike the usual almost-correct posting that I have to debug. You saved me hours of work. Thank you!

By: Zoid

Zoid — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:50:18 +0000

Hey, this worked great. I kept getting segmentation fault with plain old rpm and all I really needed from the rpm was some source files in a direction. :-)

By: chetan

chetan — Sat, 16 May 2009 16:21:32 +0000

cool nice post

By: amit

amit — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:36:20 +0000

Thanks,
its very helpful :)

By: Balakumar

Balakumar — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:23:18 +0000

Thanks Vivek,
It is very Useful

By: Marcio Carneiro

Marcio Carneiro — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:33:58 +0000

So, now I have the rpm opened and with all dirs.
Can I just mv to / and have program installed and running?
Yes, I know, if this works the rpm database is not updated.
But this works?