Re: "apt-get -b source packagename" by normal users?

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Subject: Re: "apt-get -b source packagename" by normal users?
From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 14:03:10 +0100
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On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 03:00:36PM +0200, Q. Gong wrote:
> Just want to get some debian source packages to build .deb packages
> (e.g., pine). However, "apt-get -b source packagename" running by
> normal user gets a checkroot error. How to get it done by a normal
> user?

Install fakeroot so that the build process can use it.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]


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