Some questions about packages in Ubuntu.

[Michael R. Head]

On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 14:43 +0100, Luca Manganelli wrote:
> Hi, I want to know:
> 
> 1) How packages are compiled in Ubuntu in the x86 version (32 bit
> versions), which processors are supported and applied optimization
> flags?
> 
> 2) I saw that there are sources repositories. If I want to compile,
> i.e., the wget package, how can I do that?

sudo apt-get build-dep <packagename>
apt-get source <packagename>
cd <packagename>-<version>
fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc

mike

> 
> Thank you in advance
> 
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