Question for the Experts: How to extract the contents of a .bin file in solaris

[milanbenes]

Afternoon Experts,

I've got a Solaris .bin installation file

I don't want to run the installer,

but I do not some of the .so libraries which are in this file and will be extracted when the file is executed

is there a way to extract the contents of a .bin solaris file without running the file as a self extracting full installer ?

ta

Milan.

[DaveB]

Afternoon Experts,

I've got a Solaris .bin installation file

I don't want to run the installer,

but I do not some of the .so libraries which are in this file and will be extracted when the file is executed

is there a way to extract the contents of a .bin solaris file without running the file as a self extracting full installer ?



ta

Milan.

Not easily. Bin files are more like MS MSi installers than executable zip files, getting stuff out of them is non trivial.

If the Installer allows for arguments on the command line there may be some options to try, or you may be able to get it to install somewhere out of the way and then grab the files you want afterwords, but otherwise I thinks it's a non starter.

[milanbenes]

thanks Dave

Milan.