James Freer jessejazza@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Ok so i'll give MJR's route a try!
Erm, it was Brett Parker who suggested building stuff. Don't blame me! Even then, I'm not sure he suggested the steps mentioned.
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c] fetched the source downloaded vym_1.10.0.orig.tar.gz
You want all three of these:- http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/v/vym/vym_1.10.0.orig.tar.gz http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/v/vym/vym_1.10.0-1ubuntu1.dif... http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/v/vym/vym_1.10.0-1ubuntu1.dsc
One original tarball, one patch file (diff.gz) and one description.
Put them in one folder, then try dpkg-source -x vym_1.10.0-1ubuntu1.dsc cd vym-1.10.0 dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -rfakeroot -b
and if ubuntu is anything like debian on this, it will either build a binary deb into the directory above or tell you what else to install.
Hope that helps,