Hi Flash,
My post above was solely for the purpose of alerting potential users of the post in the Utilities Section. On the linked thread I explained that my experience was only building SFSes under Puppies woofed from Ubuntu binaries and that regarding its handling of Slackware packages & rpms "your guess was better than mine." I asked for feedback.
The problem with PaDS under "Ubuntu64-bit" Puppies was its dependency on a application, unrpm.pet, which utilized a binary, dpkg-deb2, compiled in 2008, for "unpacking" debs. Xenialpup64 and Tahrpup64 include a binary, /usr/lib/depkg-deb, for that purpose.
LazyPuppy is highly skilled in writing Bash-applications. I'm not. PaDS and unrpm are his creations that, with few exceptions such as the dpkg-deb2 binary, consist of Bash-scripts. The best I can do is follow their logic: figure out their work flow. As I haven't tried to build applications under Fatdog64s or Slacko64s (a) I haven't tried to follow the logic of LazyPuppy's pets to figure out how they unpack tgzs, txzs, nor rpms for that matter and; (b) don't know if they also unsuccessfully attempt to employ an old binary on such packages.
I'm not sure how often someone working under FatDog64 or Slacko64 will want to unpack a deb. I thought about including a binary but decided that binaries might differ somewhat between Ubuntu-based Puppies and that a symlink to an existent binary would be less likely to fail. Edit, I just checked Slacko64-6.3.2. It does include /usr/bin/dpkg-deb, so unrpm64 should be able to decompress debs under that Slacko for whatever that is worth.
The explanation of the problem and my solution should enable reasonably skilled users of FatDog64 and other Slacko64s, if they need to, to obtain a dpkg-deb binary and modify unrpm64. And, if and when feedback is provided, I'll be happy to generate and publish different versions if needed.
mikesLr
p.s. The logical place to post about unrpm64 was the Utilities section where LazyPuppy also published about his originals. But I rarely have occasion to view that section and wondered how often other users did. Before the above post, there had only been 5 downloads of unrpm64. In the last day there has been 10 more. "If you build a better mousetrap the world will beat a path to your door" isn't true. Which is why people in advertising make the big bucks.