Dear Steffen, Variant 2 does look more challenging but I don't think its necessary if dovecot-solr is already available and installed. I guess the problem is with something else. Thanks Kevin
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Steffen Kaiser < [email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Kevin Laurie wrote: > > sh: 1: dpkg-source: not found >> Unpack command 'dpkg-source -x dovecot_2.2.9-1ubuntu2.1.dsc' failed. >> Check if the 'dpkg-dev' package is installed. >> E: Child process failed >> >> Any faster means? Also cant get dpkg-dev installed on my system. >> > > Well, this is the Debian way, so why would dpkg-dev balk at installation? > On Debian based machines, this should be the easiest way ;-) > > ===== > > variant 2) > Pull the sources from dovecot.org via tarball or mercurial. If you need > Sieve and other plugins, I would not call this variant easier. > > Then you have to option to > > 2a) try to apply the configuration from the Debian package to the source, > in order to have a replacement for the original package, or > > 2b) create a new configuration from scratch with help from the Debian > package, but to install into /usr/local or /opt. > > > - -- Steffen Kaiser > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1 > > iQEVAwUBVMH8Knz1H7kL/d9rAQJpNgf/eziZXNla+YGFd6JxC3OAarRsi22o+WYJ > r0ElldVnpKsKlZrY3aHfXFSL0/Ij8sW9RQSRSTs1KvnY23F6UmDnZmU7+sfQBHXO > MaSxVjPCNyI6CmLHPPQ4iKXJTWGAFCrfYDRTvHT0cra4UKqNPhUttWiYFUqo6s+a > P42j5sax4RPG7Hb4MUXEaey4il183Fwm7Z5QjyuMKb0C8gjiK5GGPEXcQ4Tutauq > 3uoZ5ScuNvExgL8teEk+JBPeKZmOQzyu1NRrLzqxFYx521CQgU3ttEP8x0PxG3Bz > /ya2dCpnB1MZbDOXBhssqu5lKvzWKltjVHoCzJKrF0vP4x+EEunO3A== > =k/gi > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
