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Gnomes file-roller integration Gnome Archive Manger and file-roller themself are unable to extract .deb archives in certain conditions even though the UI states files have been extracted successfully

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-roller/-/issues/14

Workaround is to use ar

ar -xv file.deb

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