Re: howto for compiling of deb packages

[Matthew Yee-King <yeeking@no-future.com>]

also have a read of this doc:

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/index.en.html

specifically:

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-sourcehandling.en.html

- matthew

On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 18:49:33 -0600
Adam Majer <adamm@galacticasoftware.com> wrote:

> 
> On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 10:52:32AM +0100, Roland Wegmann wrote:
> > Hello
> > 
> > I have to know how you can build deb packages from source. Could somebody
> > tell me if there exists an apt-get(able) doc package that introduces me
> > in the topic of compiling your own deb packages from source?
> 
> Just use dpkg-buildpackage
> 
> apt-get source <whatever package you want>
> cd <directory of package>
> fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage
> 
> and you'll get debs in the parent directory
> or 
> it will barf that it needs some packages instealled first..
> 
> That's it (or at least should be unless the source it broken)
> 
> - Adam
> 
> 
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