-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Gregory T. Norris wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 07:23:25PM -0600, Mark Zimmerman wrote: > > I need to install from a source package and I have not been able to > > find the documentation on this. Would someone please point me to the > > right man page or give a quick summary? With later versions of apt-get, you can use "apt-get source <packagename>" to automate steps 1 and 2. You'll need to add a deb-src line you your sources.list. The format is exactly the same as a normal deb line for accessing unstable. For example, deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free Also, giving the --compile option will try to automate the entire process for you. You need to do this as root, IIRC, necause debian/rules binary wants root privs. > 1) Download the source components for the package of interest. There > are two possible combinations: > > *.dsc and *.tar.gz (debian-specific utility, such as apt) > *.dsc, *.orig.tar.gz, and *.diff.gz (everything else) > > 2) Unpack it into the current directory, with `dpkg-source -x *.dsc'. > > 3) cd into packagename-<version>, and run `debian/rules build'. > Technically, you can probably skip this step, as the make utility > should take care of this in the next step. > > 4) Generate the debfile with `fakeroot debian/rules binary'. As an > alternative to using fakeroot, you can issue `debian/rules binary' as > root. You can also use sudo or any other similar program. > Assuming no errors, you should now have one or more installable debfiles > in the parent directory. Of course, if you use fakeroot, you need write permissions to this parent directory ;) - -- finger for PGP public key. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN8YkhL7M/9WKZLW5AQE2nAP/Zxd1CinKtdMIpnpJP9jlLNfCB4RTDD9n mzOctwPgC5NRw9I3EhHAhLtfizIjNQaAIEz/p2ZITc/YPDo5ptvApQE460it2m53 uAq3JnHGTXjDNmCFdBlvrnGuYofRn5MdnYTDbEYQY2LRNbd6F0l4uVciGWt7ucX6 jP1hjyvITZA= =CqUE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
