See below. Sorry for any split command lines, should be obvious where they are... cheers, Jeremy # pacman -Q pacman libarchive pacman 3.0.5-3 libarchive 2.2.6-1 # mkdir /tmp/pacman.test # pacman -Ud /var/cache/pacman/pkg/filesystem-2007.08-1.pkg.tar.gz --root /tmp/pacman.test # ls -l /tmp/pacman.test total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 40 2007-07-30 15:52 bin/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 40 2007-07-30 15:52 boot/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 40 2007-07-30 15:52 dev/ drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 440 2007-07-30 15:52 etc/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 60 2007-07-30 15:52 home/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 60 2007-07-30 15:52 lib/ drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 100 2007-07-30 15:52 mnt/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 40 2007-07-30 15:52 opt/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 40 2007-07-30 15:52 proc/ drwxr-x--- 2 root root 40 2007-07-30 15:52 root/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 40 2007-07-30 15:52 sbin/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 40 2007-07-30 15:52 srv/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 40 2007-07-30 15:52 sys/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 40 2007-08-20 12:09 tmp/ drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 220 2007-07-30 15:52 usr/ drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 280 2007-08-20 12:09 var/ Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail at http://mrd.mail.yahoo.com/try_beta?.intl=ca