App idea

[Oblio]

That's what I was thinking - "dpkg -x" should do it.
There is an alternative though - ar + tar-gzip/bzip2.

Cheers,
Oblio

>> Xarchiver seems very nice, but from what I see on the project's
>> homepage, it doesn't have DEB support - would that be difficult
>> to do, as I see it does have support for RPM, which is quite
>> similar IMHO?
>
> RPM support is obtained with dd gzip or bzip2 and then cpio to avoid
> the dependancy of rpm2tgz. Theorically DEb support could be obtained
> by using dpkg.