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Asked: 2026-05-15T22:23:05+00:00

I’m trying to decompile a source package because I want to look at the

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I’m trying to decompile a source package because I want to look at the preist en prerm files. Those files are normally in the debian folder but when I extract the source package I don’t find any debian folder. Is there a simple command or other way to get the debian folder?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you want to to it from the source for package foo:

    apt-get source foo

    which will get the .orig.tar.gz, the .dsc with control information and the .diff.gz with Debian changes (if any) and the debian/ directory added to the source for the build. It will have (pre|post)(inst|rm) files too.

    From the .deb binary, you can use ar and tar as per the other answer.

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