That sounds like a personal problem. .deb and .rpm packages are nothing more than tar archives with a specific file structure. dpkg and rpm both have options to

That sounds like a personal problem. .deb and .rpm packages are nothing more than tar archives with a specific file structure. dpkg and rpm both have options to extract the package locally. dpkg -L NAME will show you all the files the installed package has placed on your file system (not generated ones by the code obviously but ones that came with the archive). pip has similar options. More broadly, and I am sorry if I am wrong here, but what do you expect to glean from reading that code if you don’t bother reading the man page for your package manager?