Re: [gentoo-user] Re: realplayer download security problem

[Holly Bostick <motub@planet.nl>]

Nick Rout schreef:
> [1] The easiest way i have found to look inside an rpm is to use 
> midnight commander (mc) and hit <enter> with the rpm highlighted. You
>  get a "virtual" look inside the rpm, including all the metadata, the
>  install scripts, and the files to be installed. The rpm package must
>  be present on your system. mc can be used in this way to look inside
>  zipped files, tar files, bzipped files etc etc.

You can also do this (look inside an RPM) with:

-Krusader (KDE file manager)
-KFM (Konqueror; at least I could under SuSE, and while you of course
don't get the SuSE-added patch functionality of being able to "Install
(the RPM) with YAST" directly from Konq, I believe the ability to open
the archive is native to Konq)
- Any GUI archive program (file-roller, KArchiver, etc).

Simplistically speaking, an RPM is just another kind of archive, so most any
application that can look inside archives (transparently or dedicated)
can do this, for those of you who are not big terminal geeks. But even
if you're not a big term geek, mc has a lot to recommend it (especially
if you don't happen to have X available), and this is one of the
abilities that makes mc worth remembering and encourages one to use a
terminal every once in a while (or more often-- more cli applications
than one might imagine are extraordinarily functional, and that high
function makes them cooler than one might expect).

Holly
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