Re: dselect/dpkg/apt

[Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu>]

On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 01:21:04PM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer was heard to say:
> If you have all the Debian tools:
> 
> dpkg-source -x PACKAGE-VERSION.dsc
> cd PACKAGE-VERSION
> dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot

  Actually, it's even better :)  The above requires you to hunt around for the
source and download it first; to download the source automagically (assuming,
again, that you have apt working)

apt-get source PACKAGE
cd PACKAGE-VERSION
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot [1]

 or
apt-get -c source package
 to download and compile.

  Daniel

  [1]  You probably should just compile as root for now; if fakeroot works on
     BSD I'll eat all my hats. [2]

  [2]  I own no hats :)