Building a DEB package from source

Advice here: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=38976

on how to build a debian binary package from source. Worth a read if you are thinking of compiling.

[mpthompson]

Thanks for passing this very useful information along. I made a reference to it on the Wiki so I can use it myself at a later time.

If you just want to compile a package from a repository without armhf support, you can also just doing this :

1) Add the repository to the /etc/apt/source.list
2) doing

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apt-get build-dep packagename

3) compile the package with

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apt-get -b source packagename

4) install the deb created with

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dpkg -i packagename-version.deb

5) remove the build-dep with this script :

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#!/bin/bash

package=$1

aptitude markauto $(apt-cache showsrc $package | grep Build-Depends | perl -p -e 's/(?:[[(].+?[])]|Build-Depends:|,||)//g')


Just run the script like this

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./scriptname packagename