Info

I am in need to build gcc-4.9/libgcc1_4.9.2-10_amd64.deb locally so that I can copy this deb file to another host for installation. I am aware that we can build .deb & install file using below steps: # apt-get source gcc version 4.9# dpkg-checkbuilddeps# apt-get install # dpkg-buildpackage -uc -u

Install a version greater than or equal to of a package

When I ran dpkg-checkbuilddeps on downloaded source code gcc-4.9 package I received below information: # apt-get source gcc-4.9 # cd gcc-4.9-4.9.2 #dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: g++-multilib libc6-dev-i386 lib32gcc1 libc6-dev-x32 libx32gcc1 libc6-dbg autoconf2.64 autogen gawk zlib

New Distro

I am totally confused on steps to achieve creating a new Debian Distro - my requirement is that we need to create a new OS image where we just have packages that are required. Now is there a way where minimum packages details data is available - how do we know what extra needs to be added - where