Month: July 2015

Just a quick howto on repacking Debian .deb package from one compression to the other. Create a temporary directory:mkdir ./tmp Extract the package contents:dpkg –extract package.deb ./tmp Extract the control files (must be done to a directory called DEBIAN):dpkg –control package.deb ./tmp/DEBIAN Create the new package (-Z accepts gzip, bzip2, xz and none):dpkg-deb –build -Zgzip

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