Recently I’ve needed to install a package (keepass2) which was available only in testing and unstable repositories. As I’m running stable version of Debian (for stability and compatibility with servers) I’ve come across of an installation method worth rememering. Bellow is the adaptation of the method mentioned here.
- Add repository
Open
/etc/apt/sources.list file and add (in this case) Wheezy main repository deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main or# echo "deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
- Create folder for storing source and build files
$ mkdir -p ~/Build/keepass2
$ cd !$
- Get the source files:
$ apt-get source keepass2- Build dependencies
$ su
# apt-get build-dep keepass2
# exit- Build the package from source:
$ cd keepass2-2.18+dfsg
$ dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc
$ cd ..- Install it:
$ su
# dpkg -i *deb