[conspire] SUSE again (was: Linux program to remove mail from server?)

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Peter Knaggs (peter.knaggs at gmail.com):

> On Debian, I've done it for some packages by installing "rpm" for Debian:
>   apt-get install rpm
> and then using "rpm2cpio" to convert the rpm into a plain cpio input:
>   rpm2cpio whatever.rpm|cpio -ivd 

Hey!  I hadn't thought of trying the binary-executable rpm2cpio that
comes with the rpm package.  I'd tried only the rpm2cpio Perl script 
that I'd lightly hacked to accomodate RPMv4 packages and to improve its
documentation:

http://linuxmafia.com/pub/linux/utilities-general/rpm2cpio

I'll have to try the other one out, when I get home.