Re: deb from source

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 02:19:49AM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote:
> Ok, i started again, but i still get the md5sum error. Could the
> downloaded debian package be in error?

With the errors you're getting, this seems unlikely.

> I've downloaded it twice from the bottom of this page:
> http://packages.debian.org/testing/libdevel/libgtk2.0-dbg.html
> 
> 
> ~/SRC/GTK2: dpkg-source -x gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.dsc
> 
>     dpkg-source: extracting gtk+2.0 in gtk+2.0-2.2.1
> 
> ~/SRC/GTK2: ls
> 
>     gtk+2.0-2.2.1  gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.diff.gz  gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.dsc  
>     gtk+2.0_2.2.1.orig.tar.gz
> 
> ~/SRC/GTK2: cd gtk+2.0-2.2.1
> 
> ~/SRC/GTK2/gtk+2.0-2.2.1: dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot
[...]
>  dpkg-source -b gtk+2.0-2.2.1
> dpkg-source: building gtk+2.0 using existing gtk+2.0_2.2.1.orig.tar.gz
> dpkg-source: failure: md5sum gave bogus output `'

What versions of dpkg and dpkg-dev do you have installed?

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