Re: [trinity-users] trinity nightly builds uninstallable in Debian Jessie

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA224 In general you want to do major development on a dedicated system (one that you can wipe/reload if needed) due to the possibility of breaking core components of TDE. I'd recommend at least a dual-core machine with several GB of RAM as well. - From the software side, a standard Debian/Ubuntu install is a good base. You can install the base development packages with 'apt-get install build-essential git', and install the build dependencies for a specific package with 'apt-get build-dep <package name>'. After a development system is set up, I like to hack on TDE packages with the following method: mkdir ~/TEMP cd ~/TEMP apt-get source <package name-trinity> rm * git clone https://<git username&gt;(a)scm.trinitydesktop.org/scm/git/&lt;package name> mv <package-name>/.git <package-name-revid-folder> rm -rf package-name cd <package-name-revid-folder> dpkg-buildpackage -r fakeroot -b That last command kicks off the build process; when done you get a series of .debs in the folder above the source tree. However, you don't have to rerun that to build most changes you make to the source after the initial build, usually you can just: <edit sources> cd obj-* make install <test> <edit sources> make install <repeat> Hope this helps some! Tim