On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 10:31:20AM +0000, Brian wrote: > On Wed 15 Jan 2020 at 20:55:28 -0800, David Christensen wrote: > > > On 2020-01-15 12:28, David Christensen wrote: > > > Do I build from source? If so, is there a good tutorial? > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/SimpleBackportCreation > > > > > > The only change is the installation step -- apt(8) did not work: > > > > 2020-01-15 13:31:02 root@po /home/dpchrist/build > > # apt install freebsd-buildutils_10.3~svn296373-7_amd64.deb > > Shouldn't that be > > apt install ./freebsd-buildutils_10.3~svn296373-7_amd64.deb ?
Yes. On the wiki page, it's actually using ../ which is also correct. If you use apt or apt-get to install a local .deb file, you must prefix the pathname with / or ./ or ../ or else apt thinks it's a package name.
