.deb packages are 'ar' archives containing files called data.tar.gz and control.tar.gz. There's a file in there called debian-binary, and I assume that source packages have a file called debian-source.

To get the data.tar.gz file out of the deb file, use:

ar p deb-file data.tar.gz

If you install Cygwin (see here), you can run ar under Windows. Then send the tar.gz file to the player, and use tar (which is installed in the developer image by default, IIRC) to extract it.


Roger - not necessarily speaking for empeg