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Fedora: Rebuild A Source Package
General instructions to rebuild a Fedora source rpm. Note: This example uses the vlc source rpm, but it doesn’t work on my Fedora 8 system because there are problems installing dependencies, but the general commands should work on other packages Install build tools su -c 'yum install yum-utils rpmdevtools' Download source package. Either use yumdownloader to download from an existing … Continue reading
Ubuntu: Rebuild A Source Package
# install deb build tools sudo apt-get install build-essential fakeroot dpkg-dev devscripts # download the source code apt-get source package # install other packages needed to build sudo apt-get build-dep package cd package # update the version in the changelog dch -i # make any changes to the source # e.g. vim debian/rules # then build the new package dpkg-buildpackage … Continue reading