Rebuild Ubuntu's .deb on Debian squeeze

I was told that ubuntu’s .deb package isn’t binary compatible with debian. I have a deb package that I need to install on my debian but apparently it’s built specifically for Ubuntu

http://ppa.launchpad.net/transmissionbt/ppa/ubuntu/pool/main/libe/libevent/

Do you have any idea how I could rebuild this package on debian?

2 answers

Wes Frazier [ Editor ] Jul 29, 2011 (Edited Jul 29, 2011)

It may be possible, however why not use the the libevent http://is.gd/Pd1TY8 and transmission http://is.gd/oKtLZ8 in Debian ?

There is a good guide for building packages from both apt-build and via their source direct w/ check-install here: http://is.gd/K4mckO

Personally if I needed a newer or custom library than whats in Debian and I could not or did not want to pull it from testing or experimental I typically install it’s dependencies and use check-install to build my own packages.

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Jul 29, 2011

Helmut Grohne [ Editor ] Jul 29, 2011

The libevent on your linked ppa site is a backported version of libevent to Jaunty. So you can avoid the frontporting if you use the version supplied by Debian. However that will likely break the transmission on ppa. And this is what you will need to rebuild. So you look for the right filename ending in .dsc, dget (package: devscripts) it, and build it using your preferred build method. A way to build packages with little screwup is pbuilder and you can probably pass that .dsc file directly to pbuilder. One might still wonder why you’d need that precise version of transmission as the very same version is available in Debian’s experimental distribution.

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