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From: allend on 12 Feb 2010 00:11
You can also use Midnight Commander. Highlight the *.txz and hit F3
(View).

From: Martin Schmitz on 12 Feb 2010 00:52
Richard Herbert wrote:
> I'm still running Slackware 12.2, but I've had pretty good luck so far
> installing selected *.txz packages from Slackware 13. Is there a
> viewer for txz packages available? I'd like to be able to inspect the
> contents of txz packages, now that I've run into a problem with an
> update to dhcpcd.

If you can install them with installpkg than you've got the pkgtools
from 13.0 installed? Then you can extract the packages with explodepkg
to the current directory.

You can also install "less" from 13.0, then you can just "less
<xy>.txz". You might also install mc from 13.0.

Martin
From: Henrik Carlqvist on 12 Feb 2010 02:07
Dan C <youmustbejoking(a)lan.invalid> wrote:
> Or, using command line, just untar them into a temp dir and browse them
> however you like.

Or simply

tar -tvf filename.tar.gz

to look at its contents. I don't know if some extra switch is needed for
..txz files, but if tar is able to unpack with -x it should also be able to
view the contents with -t.

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From: danube on 12 Feb 2010 02:40
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:26:22 +0000, Dan C wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:16:10 +0000, Richard Herbert wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> I'm still running Slackware 12.2, but I've had pretty good luck so far
>> installing selected *.txz packages from Slackware 13. Is there a
>> viewer for txz packages available? I'd like to be able to inspect the
>> contents of txz packages, now that I've run into a problem with an
>> update to dhcpcd.
>>
>> Thanks!
>
> They're just tarballs. Assuming you want to look at them in a GUI, just
> use whatever "archive" program you like. I prefer 'Xarchiver', and
> 'Ark' also works well.
>
> Or, using command line, just untar them into a temp dir and browse them
> however you like.

For the lazy jobs I just use Filerunner, and in that file manager you
just double-click the tarball.
From: Keith Keller on 12 Feb 2010 10:49
On 2010-02-12, Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist(a)deadspam.com> wrote:
>
> tar -tvf filename.tar.gz
>
> to look at its contents. I don't know if some extra switch is needed for
> .txz files, but if tar is able to unpack with -x it should also be able to
> view the contents with -t.

I don't believe any version of tar that comes with Slackware supports xz
compression, so you need to do something like the xzcat pipe I posted
earlier (or the equivalent, like uncompressing the tarball on disk).

--keith


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