Build from a source .deb

[Dennis Kaarsemaker]

On zo, 2005-11-13 at 17:40 +0100, Robert Entner wrote:
> I would like to take a source .deb package, change exactly one .c
> file, and then generate a regular binary .deb package out of it.
> 
> I suppose that requires just very few commands, can you please help
> me?

sudo apt-get build-dep $package
sudo apt-get isntall build-essential
mkdir temp
cd temp
apt-get source $package
cd $package-$version
[make-the change]
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
cd ..
sudo dpkg -i $package-$version.deb
cd ..
rm -rf temp 
-- 
Dennis K.
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