Thomas Lee

I wanted to make a slight modification to the gaim source on one of my systems and found I was unable to build the application due to missing build tools and dependencies. Stumbled across this in an obscure thread in the Ubuntu forums:

$ apt-get source <package>
$ sudo apt-get build-deps <package>
$ (cd <package> && sudo dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc -d)

You’ll need to install build-essentials for build-deps to work. If the stars are aligned, you should now have a ready-to-install .deb file. Install it using the following command:

dpkg -i <package>-<version>.deb