On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 03:42:40PM -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: > I was searching for a package and I've found it. But it?s compiled for > Debian stable. I use Debian unstable and I would like to compile it for > my version of Debian. > How can I recompile it? I have those files: > program.diff.gz > program.dsc > program.changes > program.deb > program.orig.tar.gz
Make sure you have installed the build-essential meta-package, it will download things the package maintainer has assumed you have. then, dpkg-source -x program.dsc cd program-1.2.3 more debian/control (check you have whatever it asks for in Build-Depends: lines) dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -B -uc You may have problems if the program uses some complex libraries and those versions are not available or have changed. For example it may specify it requires libblah1-dev but you have libblah2-dev installed in unstable. - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/ MIEE Debian developer csmall at : enc.com.au ieee.org debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
