Hi, I am struggling to build deb package from source but failed. I am quite new to apt so, for example I would like to build kdebase from
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/distribution/deb/dists/stable/main/source I have added the line deb-source ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/distribution/deb stable main then run apt-get update followed apt-get -b source task-kde but apt-get always complains that can not fetch file Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/distribution/deb/dists/stable/mainsource/task-kde_2.1.3.dsc Unable to fetch file, server said 'Can't open /pub/kde/stable/latest/distribution/deb/dists/stable/mainsource/task-kde_2.1.3.dsc: No such file or directory ' Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/distribution/deb/dists/stable/mainsource/task-kde_2.1.3.tar.gz Unable to fetch file, server said 'Can't open /pub/kde/stable/latest/distribution/deb/dists/stable/mainsource/task-kde_2.1.3.tar.gz: No such file or directory ' the thing is there is actually no directory mainsource as it wants to fetch, there should be main/source but I dont understand why apt-get did not insert the / between this. I use konqueror and browse to the location, it has all files there! What is wrong here and how to fix it, BTW Is there a way to build debian pakages manually, I mean I rather download the files (diff, dsc orig.tar.gz ...using any ftp client into local and build it. Thank you very much indeed. ===== S.KIEU _____________________________________________________________________________ http://messenger.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Messenger - Voice chat, mail alerts, stock quotes and favourite news and lots more!
