Hi guys,

Repack any installed package in a .deb [ debian / ubuntu ]

ubuntu / debian:

You can repack any installed package on your system into a .deb file. Here is how.

You will need dpkg-repack so the first thing you need to do is install this:

apt-get install dpkg-repack then simply run dpkg-repack

for instance, to repack rhythmbox, you would run this: this will generate a .deb file of rhythmbox in the directory where you run the command.

Dpck-repack will only run as root! if you don't want to run it as root, install fakeroot:

sudo apt-get install fakeroot and use it like so:

fakeroot -u dpkg-repack dpkg-repack rhythmbox

Thanks,
Rijus.
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