Being able to rebuild an existing Debian package is a very useful skill. It's a prerequisite for many tasks that an admin might want to perform at some point: enable a feature that is disabled in the official Debian package, rebuild a source package for another suite (build a Squeeze packages for use on Lenny, we call that backporting), include a bug fix that upstream developers prepared, etc. Discover the 4 steps to rebuild a Debian package.
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