Re: Building Arora deb
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Michael Pobega<pobega@fuzzydev.org> wrote:
> On 0, Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Sven Joachim<svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
>> > On 2009-07-30 23:41 +0200, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
>> >
>> >> I just downloaded the source for Arora (a webkit-based browser)
>> >> because the version available to me through aptitude doesn't like my
>> >> ELF64 system. The source comes with a 'builddeb.sh' script, but it
>> >> fails with './builddeb.sh: line 4: debuild: command not found'.
>> >> Obviously I'm missing something essential (but not build-essential,
>> >> which I have). Help?
>> >
>> > The debuild command is part of the devscripts package; apt-file might
>> > help you to find that out yourself in the future.
>>
>> Thanks. I generally use aptitude (which has no obvious way to return
>> that kind of information) and tend to forget about the apt-* options.
>>
>> Patrick
>>
>
> Yes it does.
>
> [pobega@greedo ~]$ aptitude search ~ddebuild
> p devscripts - scripts to make the life of a Debian Packager easier
> p devscripts-el - Emacs wrappers for the commands in devscripts
> p pbuilder - personal package builder for Debian packages
Hence my observation that aptitude has no OBVIOUS way to do it,
especially since I use it in interactive mode.
Patrick
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