Stephen Boulet wrote:
>I've just started with debian and have a question about how to start with
>source packages, in particular:
>
> nvidia-glx-src 0.9.767-1
> nvidia-kernel-src 0.9.767-1
>
>With rpm, I'd do rpm --rebuild somepackage.src.rpm and install the resulting
>
>rpm:
>
> rpm -Uvh /usr/src/RPM/RPM/i686/somepackage.rpm
>
>How do I do the same thing with dpkg?
First of all, you need source lines in /etc/apt/sources.list. For instance:
deb-src http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib
non-free
Then you can use `apt-get source package' to get the source package and unpack
it.
Then you need basic developer packages such as dpkg-dev and devscripts, and
any others that are listed in the package's Build-Depends (in
package_source/debian/control).
With all those present, you can run debuild or dpkg-buildpackage to build the
binaries. Look in the developers' corner in www.debian.org for more information
and read the man pages and so on for the various commands.
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