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rkomar · 07-14-2011, 03:47 PM

I wanted to point out that, on non-debian based systems, an easy way of unpacking the contents of the deb file without installing alien is:

Code:

ar x pbsdk-linux-1.0.6_i386.deb data.tar.gz

and the data.tar.gz file can be untarred directly into the root directory:

Code:

cd /; tar zxf <wherever-it-is>/data.tar.gz; ldconfig

07-14-2011, 03:47 PM	#17
rkomar Wizard Posts: 2,989 Karma: 18346231 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Sudbury, ON, Canada Device: PRS-505, PB 902, PRS-T1, PB 623, PB 840, PB 633	I wanted to point out that, on non-debian based systems, an easy way of unpacking the contents of the deb file without installing alien is: Code: ar x pbsdk-linux-1.0.6_i386.deb data.tar.gz and the data.tar.gz file can be untarred directly into the root directory: Code: cd /; tar zxf <wherever-it-is>/data.tar.gz; ldconfig