How To Extract an RPM Package Without Installing It (rpm extract command)
Most of you may know to how extract a tarballs and/or a zip files. Someone recently PM me with a question:
How do I extract an RPM package without installing it on my Fedora Core Linux v5?
Extract rpm File
To be frank there is no direct RPM option available via rpm command to extract an RPM file. But there is a small nifty utility available called rpm2cpio. It Extract cpio archive from RPM Package Manager (RPM) package. With the following hack you will be able to extract an RPM file.
So rpm2cpio converts the .rpm file specified as a single argument to a cpio archive on standard out. If a – argument is given, an rpm stream is read from standard in.
Syntax is as follows:
rpm2cpio myrpmfile.rpm rpm2cpio - < myrpmfile.rpm rpm2cpio myrpmfile.rpm | cpio -idmv
Examples – Extract files from rpm
Download an RPM file:
$ mkdir testExtract RPM file using rpm2cpio and cpio command:
$ cd test
$ wget http://www.cyberciti.biz/files/lighttpd/rhel4-php5-fastcgi/php-5.1.4-1.esp1.x86_64.rpm
$ rpm2cpio php-5.1.4-1.esp1.x86_64.rpm | cpio -idmvOutput:
/etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf ./etc/php.d ./etc/php.ini ./usr/bin/php ./usr/bin/php-cgi ./usr/lib64/httpd/modules/libphp5.so ./usr/lib64/php ./usr/lib64/php/modules .... ..... .. ./var/lib/php/session ./var/www/icons/php.gif 19188 blocks
Output of rpm2cpio piped to cpio command (see how to use cpio) with following options:
- i: Restore archive
- d: Create leading directories where needed
- m: Retain previous file modification times when creating files
- v: Verbose i.e. display progress
Verify that you have extracted an RPM file in current directory:
$ ls Output:
etc php-5.1.4-1.esp1.x86_64.rpm usr var
This is useful if you want to extract configuration file or other file w/o installing an RPM file.
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