adityaiitb/debian_package.md

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Extract a Debian package

Raw

DEB files are ar archives, which contain three files:

Unpacking this file is a two step process.

ar vx mypackage.deb
tar -xzvf data.tar.gz

Alternatively, the contents of data.tar.gz can also be extracted in one step.

ar p mypackage.deb data.tar.gz | tar zx

Of late, the file data.tar.gz has been replaced with data.tar.xz

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