Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > * "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > John> Since I have all of these installed-- then I can recompile mc > John> from the source code and it should be OK--is that correct?? > > Yes. If you can get hold of the Debian sources for this version, you > can also recompile the package, instead of compiling the upstream > source. > > When you have them dpkg-source -x mc*dsc will unpack them. --------------------------------------------------------------- As you can guess I have never tried to recompile any debian stuff from the sources so I need a little hand holding here. Where are the docs for doing this? I looked at several in the Debian Packaging Manual. I did not find any clear cut description of what to do next. I unpacked the source files (mc-4.5.42.dsc, mc-4.5.42.diff.gz, mc-4.5.42.tar.gz. using "dpkg-source -x -su mc*dsc". Two directories were created "/mc-4.5.42" and "/mc-4.5.42.orig". I tried running "dpkg --build" from different locations and that did not work. I could eventually figure this out but I need to get this working ASAP as this is a production system. Thanks! -- AdVance-Computing Systems
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