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Re: Newbie: How do I create a .deb from source?



On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 11:45:39AM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> Then (in /usr/local/src/gsl/gsl-0.9.3) issue "dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc
> -rfakeroot". You will need to do all this as root.

fakeroot exists so that you don't have to do any of this as root. Since
you've already recommended -rfakeroot, building as a user is no more
complex and far preferable.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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