When I try to open an .ipk file with Archive Manager on Ubuntu 16.04 I get "Archive type not supported.". This didn't happen on Ubuntu 12.04.

What alternatives do I have to inspect the contents of an .ipk?

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dpkg -c <ipk_file>

or

dpkg-deb -c <ipk_file>

will help you list the contents of ipk archive.

.ipk files are archives containing among other things other archives named control.tar.gz and data.tar.gz. To extract the contents of an archive named archive-name.ipk change directories using cd to the directory containing archive-name.ipk and run the following commands:

ar -xv archive-name.ipk # results of this command are shown in the below screenshot
tar -zxf control.tar.gz
tar -zxf data.tar.gz 

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