An RPM package is a file consisting of a cpio archive that contains the files to be installed and a header that contains metadata information about the package.
You can use the simple utility tool rpm2cpio to convert the contents of an RPM package into a cpio archive and then use the cpio command to extract the contents of that archive without needing to install the RPM package.
rpm2cpio name_of_rpm_package.rpm | cpio -idmvNote that this will extract the files to the current folder.
Here is an explanation of the options used for the cpio command:
- i: extract files
- d: create leading directories where needed
- m: preserve previous file modification times for the extracted files
- v: verbose
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