On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 03:31:44PM +0100, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Hi > > Thanks for that help. > > I got the modutils rpm from kernel.org and installed it with no probs. > > Now i downloaded the e2fs source files from the depian ftp. I got 3 files. > The main file, a diff file and a .dsc file. For what do i need the .dsc file? > Is this a kind of an info file for buliding a .deb file? if yes, how do i > build the .deb file that it includes the main (then compiled), the diff and > the dsc file? >
Forget rpms. If you have it installed it is probably OK but .debs are much preferred. You can install the deb source with dpkg but the easy way is using apt-get. You should become familiar with that. It will make your life easy. In - /etc/apt/sources.list make sure you have a couple lines like - deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free You can change "unstable" to "testing" if you like. Run - # apt-get update (I think this step is needed, if you didn't have source lines in sources.list, won't hurt anyway) Make a directory in /usr/src and move there (name doesn't matter) and run- # apt-get -b source e2fsprogs That will build a .deb you can install with - # dpkg -i whatever.deb I'm going to cc: the list as I think it is best to keep it there in case anyone else had the same question. kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of "The Panther" - R. M. Rilke
