On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:01:37PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> sudo apt-get build-dep <package_name>
If you would prefer to be able to remove the build dependencies afterwards
easily, you could do (assuming one has devscripts and gdebi installed):
mk-build-deps
sudo gdebi install <the generated .deb file>
sudo dpkg -i <the generated .deb file>
rm <the generated .deb file>
> apt-get source <package_name>
>
> quilt import /path/to/patch; quilt push
^^ this step would only be needed if you were applying a patch
not already in the Debian packaging; if the patch is part of the packaging
this step could be skipped.
> debuild -us -uc
Add -jN to enable parallel builds if you have a modern CPU (N=7 is quite good
for basic Intel i-era chips, or quad core 2 duos). This can massively speed
up building and rebuilding packages.
> The system used was only a basic install so I needed devscripts and
> fakeroot.
You probably also needed build-essential.