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*** Message (#8) from Growf at 23:13 on Jan 1, 2005 ***
>-L is cool -- apt-get source procps is nice too..
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>you can run that, then dpkg-source -x <FILENAME.dsc> in the same directory in
>order to fetch the sources and expand them
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>ah, i was trying to figure out the right source incantation. I've never dealt
>with source packages before other than for the kernel.
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*** Message (#10) from Growf at 23:15 on Jan 1, 2005 ***
>yeah, it pulls the source down into the current working directory.
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>if you want to build the source package into debs, change into the newly
>expanded directory and run:
>dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -us -tc -sd
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>apt-get source seemed to get and expand everything.
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*** Message (#12) from Growf at 23:15 on Jan 1, 2005 ***
>you'll need the fakeroot package installed, along with any prereqs