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Old 06-03-2014
> dpkg-deb to Extract and Reconstruct a Multipart Archive???
Greetings!

Here's one which has been bugging me for a bit Smilie

As might be known, LibreOffice is available to some of us Linux folk as a large set of debs. Of course, being a curious sort, I'd like to dig in and recreate the original tree which is composed of these assorted archives.

So, I rummaged about & tried:
Code:
dpkg-deb -x *.deb /test/

However, unlike
Code:
dpkg -i *.deb

dpkg-deb doesn't seem to properly recognize wildcards for this work; and nothing is done...

Any ideas as to how one might use a dpkg/dpkg-deb commandline to just extract and reassemble the dirs of a large, multipart archive set (like LibreOffice) into a chosen folder without installing?

Thanks again --
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Old 06-21-2014
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