deb2targz - convert .deb files to .tar.gz
17th December 2002
Inspired by someone's
cry for help
on the
Red Hat mailing list,
and by my own need to stop Debian trying to run my life for me, I
wrote a simple Perl-script, deb2targz, in the spirit of the
neatly hacked-up Perl version of
rpm2cpio,
to convert Debian Linux's .deb package files into the nice,
convenient .tar.gz tarballs that we all know and love.
You can
download deb2targz here.
Update - 6th July 2006
Felix Wiemann
has pointed out that there is a package called alien
that does this, and more.
kitenet.net/~joey/code/alien.html