On Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 09:44:20PM +1100, Shao Ying Zhang wrote: : I have downloaded the debian packages pine-src and pine-diff. But when I : try to compile the src, I got the following error msg: : : virge:/usr/src/pine# dpkg-source -x pine_3.96M-1.dsc : dpkg-source: extracting pine in pine-3.96M : dpkg-source: failure: exec patch: No such file or directory : dpkg-source: failure: patch gave error exit status 2 : : Could anyone please help me??
Do you have a /usr/bin/patch binary on your system? If not, you should install it (section utils, package patch) and rerun dpkg-source. Regards, -Remco