Re: Source dependencies

[root <goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Richard Fillion <rick@rhix.ods.org> writes:

> Someone suggested that i do 'apt-get source x-window-system' and build
> the sources it gave me with 'dpkg-makepackage' but then i run into a
> source version of dependency hell.  XF wants groff, groff wants so and
> so......  Is there any easier way?  I _really_ want to be able to build
> XFree86 here.
> 
> Richard Fillion
> rick@rhix.ods.org

To build package foo I usually do the following:

sudo apt-get build-dep foo ; # install any Build-depends needed. Might
                             # need manual tuning.

apt-get -b source foo ;      # fetch source and build it

If everything works you have *.deb in . and the sources too.

MfG
        Goswin