[techtalk] Slackware and RPM

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Excerpts from linuxchix: 5-Dec-99 [techtalk] Slackware and RPM by Subba
Rao at attglobal.net 
> I am a Slackware user and typically count on "tar" and "gzip" to 3~
> extract packages.
> Some of the tools that I want to install are in RPM archives. 
> How do I extract this source?

A search of the Linux Documentation Project at www.linuxdoc.org comes up
with the "RPM+Slackware HOWTO", which may help you.

Unlike the .deb format, for example, rpm archives cannot be easily
unpacked with normal unix tools. 

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