[Tutor] 1.52 vs 2.1. Problems?

[Deirdre Saoirse Moen]

At 2:38 PM -0600 7/2/01, Bruce Sass wrote:
>On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Deirdre Saoirse Moen wrote:
>
>>  Download the source tarball, the patch tarball and the .dsc file (the
>>  manifest) from the Debian site (see URL below)
>>
>>  Then, do the following:
>>
>>  dpkg-source -x <package>_<version>.dsc
>>  cd <package>-<version>/
>>  debian/rules build
>
>or  "debian/rules binary"

I got errors when I tried that, which is why I didn't recommend it. 
Evidently I'm missing some piece of building .deb packages. Since 
it's not something I normally do, I figured make install wasn't too 
odious.

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