As long as you have the rpm and cpio packages installed on your system, you can do these steps.

Step One View the files in the RPM

$ rpm2cpio filename.rpm | cpio -t

Step Two Extract the files in the RPM

$ mkdir /tmp/somedir
$ cd /tmp/somedir
$ rpm2cpio filename.rpm | cpio -id

This extracts files into the actual paths they would be installed to on the system, but under your current directory, e.g. /tmp/somedir/usr/share/emacs. When you're done, clean up after yourself:

$ cd - $ rm -rf /tmp/somedir

Last modified: June 3, 2009, 12:33pm