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extracting files from a .rpm:

rpm2cpio filename.rpm | cpio -idv

finding an app

Playing “where did it go?” really sucks. If you can’t discover an application’s name, but you know what it’s called in synaptic, do something like this:

rpm -qf `which <app_name>`

DB_VERIFY_BAD

Database verification failed

\rpm --rebuilddb