making_a_deb/ making_a_deb/rdesktop-1.6.0 making_a_deb/rdesktop-1.6.0.tar.gz sudo apt-get install build-essential dh-make debhelper devscripts fakeroot cd making_a_deb/rdesktop-1.6.0 dh_make -e domingo@domingo.dk -f ../rdesktop-1.6.0.tar.gz sh ../script cd rdesktop-1.6.0/ debian/control: Source: rdesktop Section: unknown Priority: extra Maintainer: Thomas D Dahlmann <domingo@domingo.dk> Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), autotools-dev, libc6-dev (>= 2.7-10ubuntu3 ) Standards-Version: 3.7.2 Package: rdesktop Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, binutils (>= 2.18.1~cvs20080103-0ubuntu1 ), coreutils (>= 6.10-3ubuntu2 ), libacl1 (>= 2.2.45-1 ), libattr1 (>=1 ), libc6 (>=2.7-10ubuntu3 ), libc6-i686 (>= 2.7-10ubuntu3 ) Description: A Remote Desktop Protocol Client rdesktop is an open source client for Windows Terminal Services, capable of natively speaking Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the user's Windows desktop. Supported servers include Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows NT Server 4.0. finding dependencies - script: strace -f -o /tmp/log ./configure # or make instead of ./configure, if the package doesn't use autoconf for x in `dpkg -S $(grep open /tmp/log|\ perl -pe 's!.* open\(\"([^\"]*).*!$1!' |\ grep "^/"| sort | uniq|\ grep -v "^\(/tmp\|/dev\|/proc\)" ) 2>/dev/null|\ cut -f1 -d":"| sort | uniq`; \ do \ echo -n "$x (>=" `dpkg -s $x|grep ^Version|cut -f2 -d":"` "), "; \ done cd rdesktop-1.6.0/ sudo dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot