[Techtalk] I want to recompile a debian package installed with apt, possible?

[Colleen Hatfield]

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:51:54 -0400, aec <brat at magma.ca> wrote:
<snip>
>   I have:
>   deb http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
>   deb-src http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ unstable main non-free
>   contrib
> 
>   in my sources list so I can at least down load the sources, but Im
>   not sure how to make the deb?

Hi Angelina,

I use dpkg-buildpackage to do such things.  I read how to do this in
the APT HOWTO section on working with source packages:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-sourcehandling.en.html

Hope that helps!

- Colleen