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How do I compile wxWidgets with the same options as the package as the repository?

I am compiling wxWidgets as a pre-step to compiling the newest version of pgAdmin3 since there isn't a deb version in the repository that supports version postgres 9.2. I am having troubles and ...
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Creating deb file: hidden files specification by `install` file

I'm creating a deb-file and enumerating the files and paths I need to have in the package using the install file. It looks like dir1/* path1 dir2/* path2 ... But in a result deb-file there are no ...
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how do i check if (manually) upgrading software will break existing software?

As an example, let's say I want to upgrade sqlite3. The version I have after (apt-get) updating and upgrading is 3.7.13. The most current version is 3.7.14. If I install the most current version from ...
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compiling with gcc broken for users but fine for root

So somewhere along the way compiling as a regular user has stopped working on my server. I'm on Debian Stable. Can't think what has changed on my system that would result in this, or how to fix it, ...
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Unable to mount root fs after new kernel compile in VMware

So, I'm attempting to compile and use the 3.6.2 kernel on my Debian 6 VM (running under Windows 7 in VMware Workstation 9). I've already had several hick ups, but I am slowly getting through them but ...
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How can I create a .deb package with my compiled OpenCV build?

OpenCV 2.4.2 took 6 hours to compile on the Raspberry Pi and I'd love to package everything up as a deb but I have never done that before. How can I package the compiled files so that they download or ...
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Error compiling glib

I am trying to compile glib 2.24.2 under Debian 64bit GNU/Linux 6.0.4 (squeeze) using: gcc 4.0.3 glibc 2.3.6 Configure command: CPP="/home/swarkentin/externalBins/bin/cpp" \ ...
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How can I install my webcam on Debian?

I'm trying to install the webcam driver for my Logitech C210. After some googling Linux UVC driver seems to be what I need. I followed their typical use in hope to get it installed: git clone ...
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Compiling daemontools on ubuntu or debian

I am installing D.J.B.'s daemontools on an ubuntu 10.04 server (64 bit). (This question is about daemontools, which is a free and open software for managing UNIX services. It is not about 'DAEMON ...
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How to handle custom debian packages version numbers?

Let's take mplayer for example. I want to compile a new version and create a deb package to roll out to my developers. The version number is 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-1ubuntu16.1. I'm not making any ...
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Compiling for old versions of Debian

Can I build packages for Debian 5.0 using Debian 6.0 or Debian Wheezy? I assume that I could do a complete chroot'ed installation of Debian 5.0 and do my builds there, but it might be nice to have ...
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Debian package issue: files are installing into '/'

I have been recently trying to package a small Python utility to put on my PPA and I've almost got it to work, but I'm having problems in making the package install the binary (a chmod +x Python ...
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Fall-back for $VIM is invalid

I am working directly on a dev server and want to build my own vim, for my purposes, not for all system users. The build scenario is: hg clone https://vim.googlecode.com/hg/ vim cd vim/src ...
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Issues compiling Tanuki Java Service wrapper version 3.1.2 under armv5tel architecture

Basically I need this specific version of the Tanuki Java Service Wrapper to run a specific Java application. I downloaded the source from the Tanuki website and I'm trying to compile it from source. ...
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How to recompile a Debian package with -Os?

There are a few larger programs I am interested in compiling with -Os. The normal method I use to patch/recompile programs is apt-get source followed by dpkg-buildpackage. I learned from the ...
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How to build all of Debian

Let's assume: I have a mirror of the source repository locally. I only want to build for the architecture I'm running, which is i386 in my case. I'm not interested in customisation. In fact, I want ...
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How to build-compile a .c file

I have little experience with LINUX . I am using Debian. It has a library glibc which has several useful programs. iconv is the program that i want to use to do several charset conversions... However ...