Try... man deb
and read all the SEE ALSO's too. It's pretty simple really. Maybe disect a few odd .deb files first to get the lay of the land. Also, I believe you need to have installed the deb package building tools as well since I don't believe they are part of the base install. - Kyle On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Wayne Cuddy wrote: > I have just installed Debian Hamm so I am new to this distribution. I > have been a long time user of RedHat. I was quite pleased with the > book 'Maximum RPM' describing the packing building and usage of the > RPM system. Is there something similar for dpkg? I downloaded > something called the 'dpkg programmers manual' which I don't think I > am the target audience for. I would like the complete procedure for > building binary and source .deb files. A small sample walk-through > would be nice. If anyone can point me to this information or send me > anything I would greatly appreciate it. > > Wayne Cuddy > CRB-WEB (C & H Consulting) > http://www.crb-web.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > Kyle Amon email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unix Systems Administrator phone: (203) 486-3290 Security Specialist pager: 1-800-759-8888 PIN 1616512 IBM Global Services or [EMAIL PROTECTED] email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] url: http://www.gnutec.com/kyle KeyID 1024/26DD13D9 Fingerprint = 7D 86 D1 AE 4B E9 91 6A 4B BC B5 B4 12 F0 D3 1A "GNU does not eliminate all the world's problems, only some of them." - Richard Stallman The GNU Manifesto, 1985