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From: Richard Herbert on 11 Feb 2010 22:16
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!

Richard Herbert
From: Dan C on 11 Feb 2010 22:26
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.


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From: Keith Keller on 11 Feb 2010 22:26
On 2010-02-12, Richard Herbert <rherbert(a)sympatico.ca> 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.

What about tar?

xzcat package.txz|tar tvf -

or of course you can use x instead of t to extract it (though you should
do this in an empty directory, so you can cleanly remove it later).

--keith


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From: Richard Herbert on 11 Feb 2010 22:37
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:26:30 -0800, Keith Keller wrote:

> On 2010-02-12, Richard Herbert <rherbert(a)sympatico.ca> 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.
>
> What about tar?
>
> xzcat package.txz|tar tvf -
>
> or of course you can use x instead of t to extract it (though you should
> do this in an empty directory, so you can cleanly remove it later).
>
> --keith

Thanks very much for the quick response. I'll check it out.

Richard Herbert
From: Richard Herbert on 11 Feb 2010 22:39
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.

Thanks very much for the quick respose. I'll try your suggestions.

Richard Herbert
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