Unpacking RPM files

June 14, 2016

rpm2cpio and yumdownloader

If you ever happen to want to get some files from an RPM to do whatever you want with them, you could:

yumdownloader &lt;package&gt; 
rpm2cpio &lt;package.rpm&gt; &gt; file.cpio
cpio -idv &lt; file.cpio # extracts from file.cpio all package files into the current working dir

Pretty simple and small, but a good tool to have if you need it.

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