Re: Compiling Sources and Maintaining a Debian System..

2002-11-01 Thread Richard Kimber
On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 07:25:51 -0600 Jamin W.Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 12:46:44 + Richard Kimber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > What do you do if the source is not available via apt-get? I.e. where > > do you unzip it? And do you have to do anything to it befo

Re: Compiling Sources and Maintaining a Debian System..

2002-11-01 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 12:46:44 + Richard Kimber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do you do if the source is not available via apt-get? I.e. where > do you unzip it? And do you have to do anything to it before > proceeding? Now would be the time to read the New Maintainer's Guide: http://ww

Re: Compiling Sources and Maintaining a Debian System..

2002-11-01 Thread Richard Kimber
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 10:21:36 -0600 "Keith G. Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I went through the steps to get the sources.. apt-get source qpopper What do you do if the source is not available via apt-get? I.e. where do you unzip it? And do you have to do anything to it before proceeding?

Re: Compiling Sources and Maintaining a Debian System..

2002-10-31 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 09:12:53AM -0600, Sonny Kupka wrote: > I have the need and desire to compile some programs myself. > > I want to keep these up to date and keep my distribution Woody in sync. > > I wanted to recompile (as an example) qpopper > > I went through the steps to get the sources

Re: Compiling Sources and Maintaining a Debian System..

2002-10-31 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Sonny Kupka wrote: I have the need and desire to compile some programs myself. I want to keep these up to date and keep my distribution Woody in sync. I wanted to recompile (as an example) qpopper I went through the steps to get the sources.. apt-get source qpopper I then edited the qpopper*/d

Re: compiling sources and apt

2002-01-03 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 10:58:39 -0800, Charles Baker wrote: > someone mentioned a way to compile programs from source using an apt tool > that would go and get any missing components needed to compile said > sources. What was this utility? I suspect you're referring to "apt-get build-dep ". HTH,

Re: compiling sources and apt

2002-01-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 10:58:39AM -0800, Charles Baker wrote: > A few weeks ago, someone mentioned a way to compile > programs from source using an apt tool that would go > and get any missing components needed to compile said > sources. What was this utility? I can't for the life > of me recall w

Re: compiling sources

1999-02-23 Thread Leon Breedt
Leon Breedt spake thus: > download the three files for > vim you need, namely: > > vim_xxx.orig.tar.gz > vim_-x.diff.gz > vim_-x.dsc uhm, maybe you want to know where to get the files :) ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/source/editors replace stable in th

Re: compiling sources

1999-02-23 Thread Leon Breedt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: > Finally, > How do I compile up Debian source code safely so that it doesn't > upset dpkg? > Specifically, I want to recompile VIM to use the X version, but > I don't want to upgrade to Slink and have to do the job all over again. > There must be a safe '