Hi Yes, ok, i will forget rpm.
I tried your way over apt-get all worked fine until the compile process started. Here is the output of apt-get: Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... Need to get 977kB of source archives. dpkg-buildpackage: source package is e2fsprogs dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 1.19-3 dpkg-buildpackage: source maintainer is Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> debian/rules clean DEB_BUILD_ARCH=i386 DEB_BUILD_GNU_CPU=i386 DEB_BUILD_GNU_SYSTEM=linux DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE=i386-linux DEB_HOST_ARCH=i386 DEB_HOST_GNU_CPU=i386 DEB_HOST_GNU_SYSTEM=linux DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE=i386-linux dh_testdir make: dh_testdir: Command not found make: *** [clean] Error 127 Build command 'cd e2fsprogs-1.19 && dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc' failed. E: Child process failed what is "dh_testdir"? Do you have an advice? cheers, Raffaele On Sunday 11 February 2001 15:57, ktb wrote: > 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 -- Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Check out the most powerfull Linux desktop at www.kde.org !!
