Tutorials and How-tos/Build Packages

Sometimes you want to build, or at least rebuild some packages on the bubba, here is a short howto how you might do that:

• Install some basic build packages:

  apt-get install devscripts build-essentials lsb-release

• If you are only planning to rebuild a package, you can install required packages as following:

  apt-get build-dep package

  If you are building a new package, you might need to install required dependences manually

• To download sources for a package, issue following:

  apt-get source package

  If it complains that there are no sources available, issue:

  change_distribution marielle -us

  apt-get update

• To build a package, enter it's directory and issue:

  debuild -us -uc

  the paramters signal that we don't want to sign the result

• When build is don't you can install it by issuing as root:

  debi