"Nelson A. de Oliveira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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
'dpkg-source -x program.dsc' should unpack the original source tarball and apply the Debian diff. You might check that the package you have doesn't just work without modification, though; the usual problem with stable/unstable packages is that the unstable package depends on things newer than what's on a stable machine. It's still possible that you'll have dependencies on packages that have been removed from Debian since stable, though, in which case, yeah, you should recompile. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
