Compiling source packages

[Marius Gedminas]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 09:32:25PM -0300, Valter Nogueira wrote:
> How can I recompile and repack Ubuntu packages?

tl;dr version:

  apt-get build-dep packagename
  apt-get source packagename
  cd packagename-versionnumber
  # make the changes
  dch -i -llocal
    # this opens debian/changelog where you should describe your changes
  debuild -i
  ls ../*.deb

HTH,
Marius Gedminas
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