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Do you want to extract a file from an rpm package, but don't want to install the whole rpm to get it? Well here is how you do it. I am going to grab htpasswd from the httpd rpm

 

To find out where the file will get installed if you install the whole package run this command

 







 

Now that i have /usr/bin/htpasswd as the location I can use rpm2cpio to grab just that file.

 







 

That should place a file in ./usr/bin/htpasswd Notice I have a . (period) in front. It will create the usr/bin and then place htpasswd in that dir in whatever dir you are in. So in my example i was in /tmp so all the full path to htpasswd is

 

/tmp/usr/bin/htpasswd

 

From there i could move it to /usr/bin and delete /tmp/usr and also the rpm.

 

another one from J to the Y

LOL, we both added at almost the same time. Yours being much better, so I killed mine. Thanks again!