Where did you get rpm2cpio from if you don't use a distribution with an rpm extractor? (rpm2cpio is an rpm extractor) What tool did you use to download the rpm file? (is it corrupted?) /tmp/v> rpm2cpio ../vivaldi-stable-1.0.435.42-1.x86_64.rpm| cpio -id 332191 blocks /tmp/v> dpkg -l rpm2cpio [snip] ii rpm2cpio 4.12.0.1+dfsg1-3bu amd64 tool to convert RPM package to CPIO archive /tmp/v> md5sum ../vivaldi-stable-1.0.435.42-1.x86_64.rpm 848368665107cb1670c15639843ad58e ../vivaldi-stable-1.0.435.42-1.x86_64.rpm Nope; no problem here extracting it. HTH, Ger On Sat, 9 Apr 2016, rhubarbpieguy at gmail.com wrote: > > I'm receive "Error: header not recognized" and "cpio: premature end of > archive" when attempting to process the following using rpm2cpio: > > https://download.vivaldi.com/stable/vivaldi-stable-1.0.435.42-1.x86_64.rpm > > I commonly use rpm2cpio to process rpm files and have had the issue with all > Vivaldi's betas. I see nothing about such a problem on their site so assume > it's unique to rpm2cpio. I don't use a distribution with an rpm extractor. > > Can others successfully process the file? > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >