RE: Install Source Packages
On 19-Jul-99 Klaus Pieper wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How can I install a tar package and replace a debian package. I would
> like to install perl 5.005_03. I tried to remove the old one with
> dselect and all the web packages were gone.
> So, is there any chance either to remove the old perl stuff and keep the
> dependent packages or can I build a deb package from the tar file?
>
In potato using the newer apt:
apt-get source foo
where foo is the package you want source for.
cd into the directory it creates (it makes it in ./)
debian/rules binary
cd..
install the deb that is there.
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