Convert .rpm files for extraction with /usr/bin/cpio Quoting the author: why does the world need another rpm2cpio? because the existing one won't build unless you have half a ton of things that aren't really required for it, since it uses the same library used to extract RPM's. in particular, it won't build on the HPsUX box i'm on. (this one needs just perl) Updated version by Sergey Babkin that doesn't slurp the entire file into memory and supports the newer bzip2 compressed rpms. BUGS: if the rpm contains more than one cpio file this version extracts only the first one. (I don't know how widespread these types of rpms are, i haven't yet seen one. If you do, try the binary rpm2cpio that comes with the archivers/rpm port.) Now called rpm2cpio.pl so that it doesn't conflict with the binary one.