---
name: "rpm2archive"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "rpm2cpio"
version: "4.20.1+dfsg-3"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/rpm2archive/8"
---

# rpm2archive(8)

Create tar archive from RPM Package Manager (RPM) package.

## NAME

rpm2archive - Create tar archive from RPM Package Manager (RPM) package.

## SYNOPSIS

**rpm2archive** **{-n\|--nocompression}** **{-f\|--format=pax\|cpio}** *FILES*

## DESCRIPTION

**rpm2archive** converts the .rpm files specified as arguments to tar archives on standard out.

If a '-' argument is given, an rpm stream is read from standard in.

If standard out is connected to a terminal, the output is written to tar files with a ".tgz" suffix, [**gzip**(1)](/gzip/1.md) compressed by default.

In opposite to **rpm2cpio** **rpm2archive** also works with RPM packages containing files greater than 4GB which are not supported by **cpio**.

## OPTIONS

- **-n, --nocompression**

  Generate uncompressed tar archive and use ".tar" as postfix of the file name.

- **-f, --format=pax\|cpio**

  Generate archive in specified format: **pax** (the default format) or **cpio**. Note that the cpio format cannot host files over 4GB in size and is only supported here for backwards compatibility.

## EXAMPLES

***rpm2archive glint-1.0-1.i386.rpm \| tar -xvz***

***rpm2archive glint-1.0-1.i386.rpm ; tar -xvz*** ***glint-1.0-1.i386.rpm.tgz***

***cat glint-1.0-1.i386.rpm \| rpm2archive - \| tar*** ***-tvz***

## SEE ALSO

[**rpm2cpio**(8)](/rpm2cpio/8.md), [**rpm**(8)](/rpm/8.md)

## AUTHOR

-

  ```
  Florian Festi <ffesti@redhat.com>
  ```