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I would like to build a new deb package for mercurial 0.9.5 so I can use a modern version of mercurial on my Bubba.

mercurial 0.9.5 is not available in the arm package repositories, even in sarge backports, so I guess I need to build it myself.

I am a opensuse/Redhat guy so I am used to RPM based package management, nor have I ever built any binaries for anything but the architecture I am running on.

Just as a first experiment, I added the deb-src repositories to my /etc/apt/sources-list and tried to do 'apt-get source mercurial' but got this error:

sh: line 1: dpkg-source: command not found
Unpack command 'dpkg-source -x mercurial_0.9.1-0bpo2.dsc' failed.

SO, What tool chain do I need to build debian deb packages? Do you develop on x86 and cross-compile for arm, or can I install the deb tool-chain directly on my bubba?

Thanks for any advice!!

You should be fine with the toolchain in Debian running on Bubba. All you need is some patience

Install the package build-essential and you should have most tools for building packages.

/Tor