Requirements for use

You can install by adding the folowing to your cargo.toml file:

deb-rs = "0.1"

You need to have ar command (part of binutils) for decompressing the file archive. You also need the tar command to extract other archives. You need rust nightly to use this package.

Then you can use it in your program:

use std::io::Error;
use deb_rs::file::Deb;

fn main() -> Result<(), Error> {
  let mut deb = Deb::new("./example/assets/gnome_clocks.deb");
  deb.extract()?;

  deb.version()?; // Returns the version of the structure of the debian package.
  // NOTE: extract() will fail with versions that are not 2.0 as their structure is different

   deb.retrieve_control()?; // Will return some general information about the contents of the package

  deb.install_tree()?; // Returns an array of files that must be moved for the file package to work

Ok(())
}

lib.rs:

A library for handling debian files and other tasks related to the debian package repository. For extracting and retrieving data from .deb files please go to file::Deb.

Using this library requires a few common linux packages installed. These are tar, mkdir, and ar (part of binutils). Please note there are some issues with ar on ubuntu older than 20.04