How to extract a deb package without installing
Debian packages are regular ar archives. They contains three file:
- debian-binary: regular text file, contains deb packaging version
- control.tar.gz: compressed file, contains control and md5sums
- data.tar.gz: compressed file, contains all the files which will be installed
To extract a .deb ar archive you can use:
ar x example.deb
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