View contents of .pet or .deb packages

[RSH]

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=71341

[zandarian]

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dpkg-deb -l $1 

should work.

Here, with Slacko Puppy version 5.7, that doesn't work. But this yes:

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dpkg-deb -x filename.deb folder_where_deb_extracted

With this I can extract and see the contents of deb packages.

[zandarian]

OK. Just to see the contents of the deb packages, without extracting them:

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dpkg-deb -c filename.deb

[mikeb]

Curious...is Xarchive not working with debs now...its what I always use.

If you alter Xarchive script for tar by adding .pet to its list of accepted extensions it saves all that renaming.

mike

[zandarian]

Thanks, mikeb.

Yes, with XArchive I can see the contents of deb packages.

As you proposed, to make XArchive show the contents of the pet packages without renaming them, I've edited /usr/lib/xarchive/wrappers/tar-wrap.sh and changed ...

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GZIP_EXTS="tar.gz tgz"

... to ...

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GZIP_EXTS="tar.gz tgz pet"

Source: upnorth in http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=58641
Without XArchive, just using the terminal, to see the contents of the pet packages without extracting them we can use the command:

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tar -tf filename.pet

It's a shorter, easier to remember, command derived from the one provided by amigo in this thread.