Henry House wrote: > > Anyway, my question is how do I compile stuff the debian way? You know, > > so that the packages are all "known" by dpkg. > > Try: > > apt-get source --build pppoe
OK did that and here is the error I got: debian:/etc/apt# apt-get source --build pppoe Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Need to get 104kB of source archives. Get:1 http://ftp.au.debian.org testing/main rp-pppoe 2.8-0.1 (dsc) [613B] Get:2 http://ftp.au.debian.org testing/main rp-pppoe 2.8-0.1 (tar) [101kB] Get:3 http://ftp.au.debian.org testing/main rp-pppoe 2.8-0.1 (diff) [2418B] Fetched 104kB in 24s (4228B/s) dpkg-source: extracting rp-pppoe in rp-pppoe-2.8 dpkg-buildpackage: source package is rp-pppoe dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 2.8-0.1 dpkg-buildpackage: source maintainer is Daniel Schepler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dpkg-buildpackage: build architecture is i386 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 rp-pppoe-2.8 && dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc' failed. E: Child process failed What does that mean? How do I fix it?