Re: Compiling Sources and Maintaining a Debian System..

["Keith G. Murphy" <keithmur@mindspring.com>]

Sonny Kupka wrote:
> I have the need and desire to compile some programs myself.
>
> I want to keep these up to date and keep my distribution Woody in sync.
>
> I wanted to recompile (as an example) qpopper
>
> I went through the steps to get the sources.. apt-get source qpopper
>
> I then edited the qpopper*/debian/rules file and ran dpkg-buildpackage 
> -rfakeroot -uc -b
>
> I then copied my new compiled qpopper file where it needed to be..
>
> I know this isn't the right way to do it..
>
> Is there a faq on how to compile and maintain a woody setup the proper way?
You're unbelievably close: if you look a couple of directory levels up 
from the debian directory, you should have a qpopper-<version>.deb file. 
 Just do:

dpkg -i qpopper-<version>.deb

and you are set, and doing it the right way.