Extracting RPM Package Contents
firstly, there is a package available called “alien” that will convert to/from packages for nearly any distro, I use this on machines that it can be installed on.
however, there are times that using standard tools is faster and simpler,
piping the output of “rpm2cpio” (extract cpio archive from RPM Package Manager (RPM) package.) into “cpio” (copy files to and from archives) will extract the RPM package into the current directory.
rpm2cpio package.rpm | cpio -dimv
where:
-d = make directories, -i = “in” mode, -m = keep date/time stamps, -v = verbose.
