Re: LyX 1.0 for slink?
On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 04:55:52AM -0400, navindra@cs.mcgill.ca wrote:
> Jim Foltz <jfoltz@raex.com> wrote:
> > I don't want to run the unstable tree at this time, thanks. I'll just
> > compile it myself.
>
> You could still get the unstable source packages and build the deb
> from them. Now I really wish I could figure out the damn details as
> to how to do this. Any one care to explain? I'm lost in a maze of
> manpages all alike.
>
> [dpkg-source -x? dpkg-buildpackage -b? dpkg-deb?? Red Hat makes this
> so easy it's not funny.]
>
In Debian it's very easy. Just download <package-name>orig.tar.gz
<package-name>diff.gz and <package-name>.dsc . Then do dpkg-source -x
<package-name>.dsc and it will untar orig.tar.gz into separate
subdirectory ./<package-name> and apply debian-specific diff.gz . Go into
this directory and do "make -f debian/rules binary" and after compilation
you will have binary .deb file in your start directory ( in ../).
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