On Thursday 26 April 2001 01:15, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > i just did a dpkg-buildpackage on a tar.gz i downloaded. it appears to > have worked. my question is, what do i do now to get everything pulled > into a .deb file or get the stuff installed? dpkg-buildpackage creates a .deb file in the directory above the current directory. After building you just do cd .. dpkg -i <thepackage>.deb