Working with rpms (extract, list contents)
Unix. I love thee! Extract an rpm without installing in to the current directory (really, the rpm command should support this): $ rpm2cpio myrpmfile.rpm | cpio -idmv *i: Restore archive *d: Create leading directories where needed *m: Retain previous file modification times when creating files *v: Verbose i.e. display progress List contents of an rpm: $ rpm -qlp myrpmfile.rpm source