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[Paul Cartwright]

On Fri May 9 2008, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> Using pbuilder is one way of doing it (frankly, one of the easier ways,
> because it keeps your host system clean).  You can also use debuild in
> various ways to create binary packages, but that involves doing "apt-get
> build-dep <nameofpackage>", which is not an easily reversible operation.
> pbuilder just a very nice, extensible system for building binary
> packages from source, in a contained area of your system.

it might be easy, but it also requires another 35 packages..
# apt-get install pbuilder
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer 
required:
  python-qt3 python-sip4 hplip-data
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  cdebootstrap cowdancer dctrl-tools debian-keyring debian-maintainers
  devscripts diffstat dupload equivs libauthen-sasl-perl
  libclass-accessor-perl libdebian-installer-extra4 libdebian-installer4
  libdevel-symdump-perl libfcgi-perl libfile-basedir-perl
  libfile-desktopentry-perl libhtml-template-perl libio-string-perl
  libossp-uuid-perl libossp-uuid15 libparse-debcontrol-perl
  libparse-debianchangelog-perl libpod-coverage-perl libpod-escapes-perl
  libpod-simple-perl libsoap-lite-perl libterm-size-perl libtest-pod-perl
  libxml-namespacesupport-perl libxml-sax-expat-perl libxml-sax-perl
  libxml-simple-perl lintian
Suggested packages:
  cvs-buildpackage devscripts-el gnuplot svn-buildpacakge libgssapi-perl
  libipc-sharedcache-perl uuid libapache2-mod-perl2 libnet-jabber-perl
  binutils-multiarch libtext-template-perl pbuilder-uml
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  cdebootstrap cowdancer dctrl-tools debian-keyring debian-maintainers
  devscripts diffstat dupload equivs libauthen-sasl-perl
  libclass-accessor-perl libdebian-installer-extra4 libdebian-installer4
  libdevel-symdump-perl libfcgi-perl libfile-basedir-perl
  libfile-desktopentry-perl libhtml-template-perl libio-string-perl
  libossp-uuid-perl libossp-uuid15 libparse-debcontrol-perl
  libparse-debianchangelog-perl libpod-coverage-perl libpod-escapes-perl
  libpod-simple-perl libsoap-lite-perl libterm-size-perl libtest-pod-perl
  libxml-namespacesupport-perl libxml-sax-expat-perl libxml-sax-perl
  libxml-simple-perl lintian pbuilder
0 upgraded, 35 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
4 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 23.5MB of archives.
After this operation, 36.4MB of additional disk space will be used.


-- 
Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800
Registered Ubuntu User #12459