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How to extract RPM package without installing it

CentOS, Commands, Fedora, Red Hat Add comments
Dec 312009

How to extract RPM package without installing it

Answer:

Assume you have foo.rpm, type the following command to extract the rpm's contents

rpm2cpio foo.rpm | cpio -idmv

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