Comments on: Converting deb files in Ubuntu

By: sohbet

sohbet — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:56:38 +0000

thnxxx

By: C Phillips

C Phillips — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 11:15:20 +0000

I have found “GDebi package installer” to be easier than opening a terminal. Also, when installing Debs I just simply click to download, then “choose open with”-and scroll down to “GDeb” in the download options. I find that if there are further un-met dependencies it will prompt me to install them too. This way I usually get all the dependencies met also. Try it. It’s easy

By: Ars

Ars — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:39:44 +0000

lol, and I torture myself a year ago with those things for about one week.

By: AG

AG — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:41:59 +0000

Actually, you really don’t need ‘alien’.
It is possible to extract the contents of a .deb file by using ‘ar’:
For instance..

$ ar t libstdc++6_4.1-0exp6_i386.deb
debian-binary
control.tar.gz
data.tar.gz

The file metadata is contained in control.tar.gz.
Important bits are found in data.tar.gz (it’s contents can be copied to /.)

Common commands:
ar t
Display table of contents for the archive.

ar x
Extract archive member from the specified ar file.

ar p
Print the archive member to stdout from the specified ar file.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:15:23 +0000

Ubuntu on my Sony Vaio works a treat, its a A115B. No problems to report yet, it has been on for about 6 month. It also hibernates without spending days playing about with the kernel!!

By: Aukcje

Aukcje — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:42:54 +0000

Very good article … Can I translate this article and insert on my site in Poland? … Thanks

By: Andrew Nevelos

Andrew Nevelos — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:52:11 +0000

Have you ever used Ubuntu on a laptop? I am thinking about moving my Sony Viao over and wanted to know if I was in for a bunch of headaches.

By: Manca

Manca — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 03:37:42 +0000

Hey Matt,
You forgot about .tgz packages that Slack uses

rpm2tgz will do the trick.

Laterss

By: Milan Kryl

Milan Kryl — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 10:39:05 +0000

2 Matt> may be you can try this simple howto:

grep -L –recursive “google” *

By: Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 06:31:56 +0000

Aaron, I’d have to check each one to see if it was confidential or not, which sounds like a tiny little microcosm of hell to me. But I may review the directory to see if I can cherry pick a few of the good ones.

Oh. I wonder if I can get usage stats to see which files are accessed the most? Hmm…