[Tfug] Following the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in Debian

[John Gruenenfelder]

>On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:22:30AM -0700, Glen Pfeiffer wrote:
>> What I was really trying to get at is that I don't trust other 
>> sources the way I do the packages in Debian (though they have 
>> been known to not follow the standards at times - but those are 
>> reported as bugs!), Debian Multimedia, and backports. So before 
>> installing a deb from another third party, I would like check to 
>> see if they are following the standards of putting files in the 
>> right place, etc.

(re'ing to this because I accidentally deleted the original)

The tool you're looking for is 'dpkg-deb'.  It will allow you to do all sorts
of useful things with .deb files.

The most useful options are -c to view the contents of a deb and -I to have it
print info about the deb (dependencies, description, control fields, etc.).


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