buildme.deb does have DEBIAN folder and control file in it... :/ EDIT: just in case permissions are wrong: |user@Nokia-N900|~/buildme]ls -la drwxr-xr-x 4 user users 4096 Apr 28 14:38 . drwxr-xr-x 81 user users 4096 Apr 28 14:38 .. dr-xr-xr-x 5 user users 4096 Apr 28 14:38 CONTENTS dr-xr-xr-x 2 user users 4096 Apr 28 14:38 DEBIAN -r--r--r-- 1 user users 484 Apr 28 14:38 INFO -r-xr--r-- 1 user users 424 Apr 28 14:38 INSTALL
root tar xvf /home/user/MyDocs/test.tar