Hi Armin, I am not able to give a very good answer myself, but I am will give you what little info I know. I was hoping that someone would have replied to your question already but from my mail it does not look like anyone has yet. An answer may be in the mailing list archives too, which can be searched. But anyway, I have only done this once a long time ago with a source package that I downloaded from freshmeat I think it was and was made with debian in mind, as it had a directory in it named 'rules'. All I did was type in debian/rules and by typing man -k debian there are a few man pages about it too. Such as dh_builddeb. Maybe some of the man pages might be of help. I see people asking about this when I'm in IRC and mostly the response is debian/rules or ./debian/rules. I may be trying to do some more of this myself in the future sometime. Oh. btw, when I did do the one debian package build it made the .debs in the parent directory of the directory I was in. As in i was in /usr/local/src/source_of_program and made the .debs in /usr/local/src. So you might want to look for them there when you try it out.
Hope that helps! Jim Richards Q: What did the instructor at the school for Kamikazi pilots say to his students? A: Watch closely. I'm only going to do this once. On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 09:37:34PM +0200, Irger Armin wrote: > Hi, > > how can i create a .deb package ? > And how can i compile a .deb source package ? > > -Armin > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]