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Sometimes it happens we want to create his own .deb package from the sources repository (e.g. when you like to use the last up-to-date version and the binary package doesn’t exist…)

It’s very easy if you follow the rules in the good order

1. Download sources files of your software (for this example it could be drupal6 even if the binary package exists now…)
   1. drupal6_6.14-1.orig.tar.gz
   2. drupal6_6.14-1.diff.gz
   3. drupal6_6.14-1.dsc
2. Un-compress drupal6_6.14.orig.tar.gz
3. Un-compress drupal6_6.14.diff.gz
4. You’ll probably need some tools if it’s your first building package process :
   1. sudo apt-get install dpatch
   2. sudo apt-get install fakeroot
5. Run : patch -p1 < xxx.diff
6. Move the debian directory created in previous step into the folder created in step 2 (the one which contents the sources from *.orig.tar.gz, for this example it’s drupal-6.14) : mv debian drupal-6.14
7. Go into the sources directory : cd drupal-6.14
8. You’ll probably make debian/rules script executable… Run : chmod +x debian/rules
9. Then run : dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -b
10. That’s all ! You just have to install your new freshly compiled package. So, for our example it will be :
    1. cd ..
    2. sudo dpkg -i drupal6-6.14_all.deb

You know the way now…