rpm to tar

[eskolnik]

Does anyone know of a product or Open source that will will convert a rpm package to TAR format? I need to install Leagto Netowrker on Linix box's that don't have (and can't have) rpm installed on them.

Thanks Ed Skolnik
The Interpublic Group Of Companies, Inc.
GIS Chicago System Administrator
Chicago, Illinois 60611

 

[franklin97355]

Don't know off the top of my head but there is a legato forum here on tek-tips.

 

[tobiasly]

That really wouldn't be very straightforward I'm afraid. The best you could hope for, even if such a tool existed (not sure if it does), would be to extract all of the binary files.

As far as where they go, any setup scripts that need to run, configuration, etc., you would lose all of that functionality that rpm's provide. You wouldn't, for example, get a Makefile where you could say "make; make install".

I highly doubt such a program exists, mainly because the RPM program itself is open-source, and it's doubtful that anyone else would duplicate the work. When you say it can't have rpm installed, is that a policy decision or a technical reason?

 

[nwardez]

Hi,

There's a tool called "rpm2tgz" provided with Slackware that convert rpm file to a tar-zipped archive. You can try it, and with a little luck install your application from the tgz file after uncompressing it.

 

[DanSoft]

Try getting KPackage, from

http://apps.kde.com;

I believe that it will handle RPM's on any distro. It handled Debian/GNU packages just fine on Mandrake 7.2 (which natively uses RPM)

Of course, I'm not an expert on Linux, so take that with a grain of salt. --Dan Hirsch
CEO of DanSoft