Thu, 10 Aug 2006

Install Debian Source Packages

Debian can be a bit tricky if you're not familiar with its method of building
source packages.   Although this is covered in their faq somewhere, here is the
information.

    apt-get build-dep fluxbox
    apt-get source fluxbox
    apt-get install fakeroot
    apt-get install dpkg-dev
    apt-get install automake

(You may already have fakeroot and dpkg-dev installed). Although apt-get
build-dep fluxbox should also install all necessary tools, I have found that I
also have to get automake.

This will bring you three files (version number correct as of January 2004)
fluxbox_0.1.14-2.orig.tar.gz, fluxbox_0.1.14-2.diff.gz and
fluxbox_0.1.14-2.dsc. You will also have a fluxbox-0.1.14 directory.

The next step is

dpkg-source -x fluxbox_0.1.14-2.dsc

I'm assuming you have wget or something similar, if not do a quick

apt-get install wget

Now, we patch

cd fluxbox-0.1.14/src
wget kitaj.no-ip.com/files/fluxbox/fluxbox-0.1.14-menukey.patch
patch < fluxbox-0.1.14-menukey.patch


Now to build and install the package. You are in the fluxbox-0.1.14/src directory

cd ../
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b


This will take some time. When it's done

dpkg -i ../fluxbox_0.1.14-2_i386.deb

Posted at: 21:36 | category: /configure | Comments ()