Newbie Ubuntu user here...I use a tool called YUMI to create a USB boot device.Its Debian package and its source can be downloaded from http://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/.I needed to change a file in source code to make the program fits my needs but now I don't how to compile it and install it afterwards.I tried with dpkg but with no experience and it didn't work.So, is there an easy way to compile and install a user-modified source code?
How to compile a Debian package from source?
debian;package management;source
The easy way to compile a package from source is with dpkg-buildpackage. Make sure you have build-essential installed. And fakeroot as well. Then:All of this is done inside the package directory. If you're in the right directory, there should be a debian/ subdirectory, containing debian/control and debian/rules (and probably more stuff, too).Run dpkg-checkbuilddeps. Install any missing dependencies.Edit debian/changelog to add a new changelog entry, with a new version. Otherwise apt will be annoyed. Alternatively, install devscripts and use dch -l.Run dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b -uc to build the binary package only, dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc to build binary and source packages.You should now have some new .deb files in the parent directory, ready to be installed with dpkg -i