Questions tagged [debuild]
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Why did debuild fail with "configure: error: unrecognized option:"
I was trying to follow the instructions listed in this question/answer.
libimobiledevice 1.2 (iOS 8 Support) for Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty
The answer said : "Actually I cheated a bit. I couldn't satisfy ...
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Building packages on Ubuntu 16.04 for Launchpad
I would like to build and upload to Launchpad a simple package for Ubuntu 16.04. It is just a colour theme; it basically requires the creation of a new folder under /usr/share/themes. The rulesfile ...
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Cannot build packages from source using "apt source" and "debuild"
I have a strange problem. I want to build x264 and gpac from source on Ubuntu 18.04 using the official command "apt source", followed by "sudo apt get build-dep" then "debuild&...
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debian/rules:161: recipe for target 'config.status' failed
I am trying to build a deb package for collect-pw. The upstream tar ball is:
http://perfwatcher.free.fr/download/collectd/collectd-5.4.0.20150311.tar.gz
For building this package, I pulled the ...
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How to automate applying custom patches to ubuntu upstream packages?
I have a local customization to the xserver-xorg-core package. It is a patch I have created and is not useful to anyone else since it is an optimization very specific to my workflow.
So, whenever I ...
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Build only a single .deb from apt-get source (that generates multiple .deb files)?
Let's say I want to build a package like network-manager; I can do, say, on 14.04 trusty:
apt-get source network-manager
cd network-manager-0.9.8.8
debuild -us -uc
... this, however, gives me a ...
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dpkg-genchanges: error: cannot read dsc
I want to bump the version of libqca-qt5-2 package to 2.2.0.
# get sources
git clone git://anongit.kde.org/qca.git
git archive HEAD --prefix=qca-qt5-2.2.0/ -o qca-qt5-2.2.0.tar.xz
mkdir ../deb-qca
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launchpad upload rejected because of orig.tar.gz conflict across different ubuntu releases
I have a package that depends on openssl, but what I observe is Ubuntu 20.04 and earlier ships openssl 1.1.x and ubuntu 22.04 and higher ships openssl 3.0.x.
So I had to build 2 packages of my product ...
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When building package with debuild, I'm unable to force make to look into certain directories for *.h files
What I'm trying to do is to build a deb package with debuild command, given I have provided all the necessary files like debian/control, debian/rules, debian/changelog etc...
When trying to run ...
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Building linux-tools deb produces empty binary packages
I'm trying to build the linux-tools-generic package on Ubuntu Impish (i.e. 21.10).
I am trying to follow the guides I can find (e.g. this one), so the workflow looks something like this:
Set up by ...
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Failed to install ubuntu kernel package
I have built Linux images, headers and tools using the steps mentioned in Ubuntu build pages. Following are the deb packages I got;
linux-headers-4.15.0-51-generic_4.15.0-51.55_amd64.deb,
linux-...
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how to quietly replace /root/.bashrc with custom package
I have build my own .deb package with custom /root/.bashrc file. When I try to install this package, I get the following message:
Configuration file '/root/.bashrc'
==> File on system created by you ...
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installing tor on ubuntu 14.04 using debuild
I'm trying to install tor on my system, I've followed the steps on the tor projects site entirely and I've ran into an issue on this step
$ mkdir ~/debian-packages; cd ~/debian-packages
$ apt-get ...
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