explodepkg − Extract the contents of a package to the current directory.
explodepkg package [package2 ...]
explodepkg uncompresses and untars files from package files to the current directory. The input files can be tar archives optionally compressed with gzip, bzip2 or lzma, or rpm or deb packages. The input file type is recognized from the filename extension, which should be .tar, .tgz, .tlz, .tbz, .rpm or .deb. If the filename has an unknown extension, explodepkg assumes .tgz for backwards compability.
explodepkg is intended for package maintenance − exploding a package to a subdirectory, making fixes to it or upgrading the software, and then building the updated package with makepkg(1). explodepkg should not be used for installing packages, because it does not update the package database or run install scripts.
Original by Patrick J. Volkerding <volkerdi at slackware.com>
Revised for Tukaani Linux by Lasse Collin <lasse.collin at tukaani.org> and Ville Koskinen <w−ber at iki.fi>
pkgtool(8), installpkg(8), removepkg(8), upgradepkg(8), viewpkg(1), makepkg(1), convertpkg(1), slackrepo(1), tar(1), gzip(1), bzip2(1), lzma(1)