Redhat 9 -- where is "download"?

[Tim Writer]

Henry Spencer <henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org> writes:

> On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, William Park wrote:
> > I have question about 'rpm' usage.  How do you extract the files into
> > current directory, without converting .rpm to .tgz?
> >     rpm -i --prefix /path/to/current/dir kernel-BOOT-2.4.20-8.i386.tgz
> >     "package kernel-BOOT is not relocateable"
> 
> Try:
> 
>   rpm -i --root /path/to/current/dir --nodeps kernel-BOOT-2.4.20-8.i386.rpm
> 

Or this:

    rpm2cpio kernel-BOOT-2.4.20-8.i386.rpm | cpio -idm

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