control.tar.gz – What’s inside?

Lets take a look at the contents of control.tar.gz file.In case you are wondering what that is,plz take some time out to see what we are really talking!

In order to access the files inside the .deb file,fire nautilus and open them using archive manager(present in almost all linux editions)

control.tar.gz contains the following files

* control

*md5sums

*postinst

*postrm

*prerm

The most interesting file is control.

the contents are as follows:

i have opened the control file for epiphany browser’s deb package.control essentially gives all the .deb package including architecture and RELATED dependencies.So go through them carefully!

Package: epiphany-erowser
Version: 2.14.3-8
Section: gnome
Priority: optional
Architecture: i386
Depends: libart-2.0-2 (>= 2.3.16), libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.12.2), libaudiofile0 (>= 0.2.3-4), libavahi-client3 (>= 0.6.13), libavahi-common3 (>= 0.6.10), libavahi-glib1 (>= 0.6.12), libbonobo2-0 (>= 2.13.0), libbonoboui2-0 (>= 2.5.4), libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libdbus-1-3 (>= 0.94), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.71), libesd0 (>= 0.2.35) | libesd-alsa0 (>= 0.2.35), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1-12), libgconf2-4 (>= 2.13.5), libgcrypt11 (>= 1.2.2), libglade2-0 (>= 1:2.5.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libgnome-desktop-2 (>= 2.11.1), libgnome-keyring0 (>= 0.6.0), libgnome2-0 (>= 2.14.1), libgnomecanvas2-0 (>= 2.11.1), libgnomeprint2.2-0 (>= 2.12.1), libgnomeprintui2.2-0 (>= 2.12.1), libgnomeui-0 (>= 2.13.0), libgnomevfs2-0 (>= 2.13.92), libgnutls13 (>= 1.4.0-0), libgpg-error0 (>= 1.4), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0), libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0), libjpeg62, libmozjs0d (>= 1.8.0.13~pre070720), libnspr4-0d (>= 1.8.0.10), liborbit2 (>= 1:2.14.1), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.14.8), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4), libpopt0 (>= 1.10), libsm6, libstartup-notification0 (>= 0.8-1), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1-12), libtasn1-3 (>= 0.3.4), libx11-6, libxcursor1 (>> 1.1.2), libxext6, libxfixes3 (>= 1:4.0.1), libxi6, libxinerama1, libxml2 (>= 2.6.27), libxrandr2, libxrender1, libxslt1.1 (>= 1.1.18), libxul0d, python2.4 (>= 2.3.90), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1), gnome-icon-theme (>= 2.9.90), dbus, iso-codes, xulrunner-gnome-support, gconf2 (>= 2.12.1-1)
Recommends: yelp, epiphany-extensions
Suggests: mozplugger
Conflicts: epiphany-extensions (<< 2.14)
Provides: www-browser, gnome-www-browser
Installed-Size: 9996
Maintainer: Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org>
Description: Intuitive GNOME web browser
A simple yet powerful GNOME web browser targeted at
non-technical users. Its principles are simplicity and standards
compliance. Simplicity is achieved by a well designed user interface and
reliance on external applications for performing external tasks (such as
reading email). Simplicity should not mean less powerful.  Standards
compliance is achieved on the HTML side by using the Gecko
rendering engine, as developed for the Mozilla and Firefox browsers; and
on the user interface side by closely following the GNOME Human Interface
Guidelines (HIG) and by close integration with the GNOME desktop.

I’ll continue with the other files in the upcoming posts…