Depot Storage Format

[Mark Hess_3]

This should be an easy one - Can someone enlighten me on the 'depot' file storage format. I have a few applications that are stored as .depot.gz. The gunzip part is simple, but I'm not familiar with depot and how to extract files from this resulting file.

Thanks - Mark

[Patrick Wallek]

You install "*.depot" files with swinstall. You generall don't have to manually do anything other than invoke swinstall and point it the *.depot files ('man swinstall' for more details).

If you need to extract a file out of a depot, then you can use tar. If you want to see the contents of a depot you can try 'tar -tvf depotfilename'.

[Mark Hess_3]

Thanks - such a simple solution!

Mark