Posts Tagged ‘code’

How to: Compile packages on Debian/Ubuntu by hand

May 4th, 2008

In some very rare situations you may find yourself in the need to recompile a Debian (or Ubuntu) package. Luckily for all of use, the great Debian packaging system makes this a piece of cake.

Let’s say we want to recompile mod_python for apache 2 to hook in to python 2.5, instead of the default 2.4.