Extracting specific files from an rpm

[BiOPSY]

Im trying to get the printer drivers from a mandrake rpm file, Im running Fedora but I think the rpm has the files I need, how do I extract and veiw the contents of an rpm before I install or extract certain files from it?

[RedFedora]

You can use the rpm command with the -qp options. For example:

rpm -qp printer_driver.rpm

This will display the files contained in the rpm package.

[crackers]

Even if you manage to extract them, there's a very, very, very high likelyhood that they won't work because of library dependencies, etc.

[imdeemvp]

You be surprise the some mandrake rpm's do work under rh8-9....as I recalled some did work for me but now in FC2 it may also be a different story.

[jiawj]

if you wanna extract rpm-package-file, you can try:
rpm2cpio rpmfile > rpmcpiofile
cpio -id < rpmcpiofile
then the rpm-package-file would be extracted on current directory.

[Jman]

The Midnight Commander terminal file manager used to be able to extract certain files from RPMS, but now it just seems to view the file list or install it.

It's a good file manger though.

yum install mc

if you want to try it.