Re: equivalent of *BSD's 'make world' in debian?

[Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>]

>>>>> "Brent" == Brent Verner <brent@linux1.org> writes:

    Brent> is there any way to use debian's package system to do a
    Brent> from- source upgrade?

Sure. Add:

deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free

(or stable if you're using stable)

to /etc/apt/sources.list. Run an apt-get update, then:

apt-get -b source packagename

Done.

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