Re: what archive support packages are required to be installed in an rpm distro for mc to navigate .debs as it can with .rpms?

I tested ubuntu 22.04 tar package deb

( btw. strange thing their security repo runs http not https ... see the https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/amd64/tar/download link )

/tmp r: file tar_1.34+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1.22.04.2_amd64.deb
tar_1.34+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1.22.04.2_amd64.deb: Debian binary package (format 2.0), with control.tar.zst, data compression zst

and i could browse it with mc just normal.

#  mc --version
GNU Midnight Commander 4.8.30
Built with GLib 2.78.1
Built with S-Lang 2.3.3 with terminfo database
Built with libssh2 1.11.0
With builtin Editor and Aspell support
With subshell support as default
With support for background operations
With mouse support on xterm and Linux console
With support for X11 events
With internationalization support
With multiple codepages support
With ext2fs attributes support
Virtual File Systems:
 cpiofs, tarfs, sfs, extfs, ext2undelfs, ftpfs, sftpfs, fish
Data types:
 char: 8; int: 32; long: 64; void *: 64; size_t: 64; off_t: 64;


# apt-cache show mc

Package: mc
Version: 3:4.8.30-1
...
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libext2fs2 (>= 1.37), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.77.3), libgpm2 (>= 1.20.7), libslang2 (>= 2.2.4), libssh2-1 (>= 1.2.8), mc-data (= 3:4.8.30-1)
Recommends: mailcap, perl, sensible-utils, unzip
Suggests: arj, bzip2, catdvi | texlive-binaries, dbview, djvulibre-bin, epub-utils, file, genisoimage, gv, imagemagick, libaspell-dev, links | w3m | lynx, odt2txt, poppler-utils, python, python-boto, python-tz, unar, wimtools, xpdf | pdf-viewer, zip



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