On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:11:00AM +1000, Craig Small wrote: > Make sure you have installed the build-essential meta-package, it will > download things the package maintainer has assumed you have. > then, > dpkg-source -x program.dsc > cd program-1.2.3 (All correct, "apt-get source" was covered elsewhere in the thread) > more debian/control > (check you have whatever it asks for in Build-Depends: lines) Instead of this, you can run "apt-get build-dep program" for any APT-able package. May not apply to this particular forward-port scenario, but in general it makes things easy. HTH someone, - Keegan
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