From: 	gokul nath <agnath123@yahoo.co.uk>
To: 	rmayorga@xxxxxx
Subject: 	help in building a deb package
Date: 	Wed, 2 Apr 2008 06:00:46 +0100 (BST) (mar, 23:00 CST)


hi Rene
i am a newbie in debian. i want to know how to rebuild a deb package from source. what i wanted to do is to build a deb package of pctel modem i downloaded from http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/pctel-linux/pctel-0.9.7-9-rht-7.tar.gz. how can i build a deb from this source. pls explain it to me in detail.
 
the next question is how to modify an old deb package. i downloaded a pctelmodem-2.6.18-2-386_8.31a11_i386.deb . i want it to upgrade it and its  dependencies and build a new deb package compatible for debian etch 2.6.18-4-686. how can  i do it. how can i get rid of the dependency problem while installing it in a new system.
 
hope you would help me in doing this.
 
 
gokulnath
agnath123@yahoo.com
kerala
india