uubuntu equivalent of rpmbuild

[Paul Sladen]

On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, FM wrote:

Hello 'FM',

> I'd like to test Ubuntu at my office (to replace Mandrake on Desktop).
> From time to time I need to rebuild rpm [...]
> I suppose there is an equivalent in the deb world ?

  $ sudo apt-get install build-essential
  $ sudo apt-get build-dep foobar
  $ apt-get source foobar
  $ cd foobar-*

  $ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot

  $ ls ../foobar*.deb

More information:

  http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ch-build.en.html

Hope that helps, this question probably belongs on ubuntu-user.

	-Paul
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