Easy Way to Extract RPM with P7zip Under Linux

Red Hat Package Manager, abbreviated RPM, RPM is some sort of cpio archive.

P7ZIP is a port of 7za.exe for POSIX systems like Unix (Linux, Solaris, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Cygwin, AIX, …), MacOS X and BeOS,it supports many formats:

• Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
• Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, MSI, WIM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS

so if you want to extract a RPM file, such as myrpm.rpm,you can do in this way

7z myrpm.rpm
7z myrpm.cpio

btw, under windows, you can use 7-zip to do the same job.

reference,

How to Unzip or Extract RPM under Linux

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7-ZIP