Time for action – Ubuntu: from tarball to debs

The following steps will show you how to install debs:

  1. Install the dpkg-dev package. This package provides the development tools (including dpkg-source) required to unpack, build, and upload Debian source packages.
    $> sudo apt-get install dpkg-dev

    If this package does not install, check the list of sources used by the apt program. The repository sources are defined in the /etc/apt/sources.list file and updated with the sudo apt-get update command.

  2. Install all the required development libraries for the freeradius package:
    $> sudo apt-get build-dep freeradius

    If you get a message that says: Unable to find a source package for freeradius, it is probably because the source repositories (deb-src) are not ...

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