Comments on: How to: Recompiling / Rebuild Debian / Ubuntu Linux Binary Source File Packages

By: Ravikant

Ravikant — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:22:58 +0000

“Are you crazy?” and septpod it. Now I wish I had tried it, though. Just for giggles.

By: anonim

anonim — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 02:37:34 +0000

How to setup this using Eclipse CDT ?
I need autocomplete feature

By: JustAComment

JustAComment — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 19:35:52 +0000

only a little comment:

There is a small mistake in the general instructions: the “dpkg-source -x foo_version-revision.dsc” command fails because the sources are owned by root. This can be avoided because the “sudo” in the step of getting the source is not really needed, so instead of “sudo apt-get source foo” you can do “apt-get source foo”.

Otherwise, this howto is just perfect.

By: Debianfan

Debianfan — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 08:27:29 +0000

Thank You!
I’ve Just installed Debian Squeeze/unstable after almost 2 years.guess what?Debian Version of sensors-applet fails to show My Nvidia GPU temperatures.Your Article Turns out great ,I’ve to enable nvidia-support with “DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=”–enable-gui –with-nvidia” fakeroot debian/rules binary”
Thanks!
PS:GPU Temp Support in sensors-applet needs libNVCtrl and some other headers which comes with NVIDIA installer or ,for Debian it is in the package “nvidia-settings”

Thanks Again!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:35:13 +0000

When I rebuild a package this way and install it, then it will be overwritte with same version from repository next time I run apt-get update/dist-upgrade. I guess you forgot to tell how to push the version number. Perhaps “dch -i”?

By: Maks

Maks — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 03:52:25 +0000

hi! but isn’t “apt-get source foo” doing “dpkg-source -x foo.dsc” ???? so in
# sudo apt-get source mplayer
# sudo apt-get build-dep mplayer
# dpkg-source -x mplayer_version-revision.dsc
# DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=”–enable-gui –enable-radio –disable-ivt” fakeroot debian/rules binary

Isnt this step already included whet you do apt-get source ?? # dpkg-source -x mplayer_version-revision.dsc

By: Chris Brito

Chris Brito — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:55:12 +0000

you help me so much! thank you

By: brownman

brownman — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 01:48:52 +0000

u absolutly saved me years of pains..

im struggeling to recompiling- other games – for my desired learning..

10X alot – it’s a bless finding your page !

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:48:16 +0000

Replace foo with actual package name such as apache2 or whatever you wish to rebuild.

By: Wilson Hung

Wilson Hung — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:25:39 +0000

My environment is on ubuntu 8.10 and I entered $ sudo apt-get source foo at step 2, for all build-dependencies installation, but got an error : cannot find sources of foo package. What should I do to continue following steps? Thanks.

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By: Killmyself

Killmyself — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:19:42 +0000

All this command didn’t help me much because I didn’t have any network connection at my home. All I can do is by downloading all the binary sources packages. But, I didn’t know the correct command to compile and execute the file. So, how can you help me then?
Before this I tried to install realplayer, but all those command I found from internet niether can help me much, but, when I drag the .bin file to terminal windows, it suddenly execute the file. Then, my installation complete, I didn’t need any command like:
sudo chmod a+x XXXXXX.bin

I didn’t need this command, I think my step quite easy. But know the problem is how can I install tar.gz packages? I tried the same way to but, it didn’t work at all. Can you suggest me any other alternative way to install this kind of packages?

I want to install video codecs for my ubuntu 8.04, I search a lot of blog in internet, but must of the way they show required me to have internet connection, but I didn’t have one, so please I’m begging anyone that can help me?
here my e-mail glistening.dream@gmail.com

By: vivek

vivek — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 06:43:12 +0000

Use rpmbuild under RHEL / CentOS / Suse / Fedora Linux

By: Nilesh

Nilesh — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:53:03 +0000

Is this possible for Fedora 7+ ?

By: atul_iims

atul_iims — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:11:48 +0000

i have one query that is i am having one text file which include lots of version like

likeCompress-Raw-Zlib-2.001.tar.gz
Compress-Zlib-2.001.tar.gz
ConsoleKit-0.2.3.tar.gz
Convert-ASN1-0.20.tar.gz
Crypt-SSLeay-0.51.tar.gz

my problem is how to extract string one place like
Compress-Zlib & version in other file 2.001.tar.gz
please if you have any idea about this please mail me

By: housetier

housetier — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:25:52 +0000

When I build from source, I create a build script that sets the environment variables and then executes debian/rules. That way I don’t have to find the correct setting again, when I build anew some time later. The script lives in ~/bin and thus is easily found.

By: vivek

vivek — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:44:13 +0000

Scott,

devscripts make the life of a Debian Package really easy.

By: Scott Carlson

Scott Carlson — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:23:42 +0000

I also use these lines to up the package number for a local deb to indicate what I’ve changed.

export EMAIL=someemail@gmail.com
dch -n