<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Terence Simpson <<a href="mailto:kubuntu.tsimpson@googlemail.com" target="_blank">kubuntu.tsimpson@googlemail.com</a>> wrote: <div class="gmail_quote"> The -D option is like the -D option to gcc, that is, no space after the <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> option. cd app && cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/lib/xtrkcad . && make Optionally you can use the cmake class with cdbs, then your rules file would only need: [start of rules] include /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/<a href="http://cmake.mk" target="_blank">cmake.mk</a> include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/<a href="http://debhelper.mk" target="_blank">debhelper.mk</a> DEB_CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX = /usr/lib/xtrkcad [end of rules] just make sure to build-depend on cdbs (>= 0.4.51) </blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div> Tried the cdbs thing too No go yet <a href="http://launchpadlibrarian.net/31275917/buildlog_ubuntu-karmic-amd64.xtrkcad_1%3A4.0.3a-0ubuntu15_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt.gz">http://launchpadlibrarian.net/31275917/buildlog_ubuntu-karmic-amd64.xtrkcad_1%3A4.0.3a-0ubuntu15_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt.gz</a> Regards -- Bhavani Shankar.R <a href="https://launchpad.net/~bhavi">https://launchpad.net/~bhavi</a>, a proud ubuntu community member. What matters in life is application of mind!, It makes great sense to have some common sense..!