On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:35:50PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Very good point. Then just switch to root for the dpkg -i part. > > 'dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot -b' it is then. I forgot to mention that this only makes sense because "apt-get source <package>" doesn't require root permissions and can (should) be called as normal user. Write permissions for the current working directory are necessary, of course. Regards, Lothar