Redhat 9 -- where is "download"?

[William Park]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 01:33:58PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 01:30:08PM -0400, William Park wrote:
> > I have question about 'rpm' usage.  How do you extract the files into
> > current directory, without converting .rpm to .tgz?
...
> Why would you want to?  And doesn't rpm have an extract rather than
> install option?  Or use alien to convert to a tgz.

Actually, my 'rpm' does not have extract option.  Slackware comes with
'rpm2tgz', so I'm using that to convert to tarball.

> I still can't imagine wanting to do that though.

How else can you extract '/boot/config-*'?  I need that in order to
compile the kernel again. :-)

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