Re: How to unpack an repack a deb package?

[Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de>]

Hi Christian, 
> Well, the easiest way to do so, if you have Debian's packaging tools
> (notably dpkg-deb and fakeroot) installed:
> 
> ($DIR/ shouldn't exist prior to this and could be the package name)
> dpkg-deb -x package.deb $DIR/
> dpkg-deb -e package.deb $DIR/DEBIAN
> $EDITOR $DIR/DEBIAN/control
> fakeroot dpkg-deb -b $DIR package_repacked.deb
> rm -r $DIR
> 

Yes, great, this worked! I just needed to change the deps od an external 
package (fakturama*.deb) from openjdk-7-jre-headless to openjdk-8-jre-headless 
as the old 7-package would break my system. Doing as you suggested works well 
and I will send the developer a mail. 

What also should work is dpkg --unpack bla.deb /whatever/bla. Howver, I did 
not know, that the DEBIAN directory must be unpacked manually, too.

Most important: It si working as I wanted, and I have learned something more. 
Isn't that the most important? Learning?

Haved a nice weekend and thank you very much!


> Regards,
> Christian
Best 

Hans