apt-build1

Fetch sources and build packages optimized for your architecture.

Usage

apt-build [options] [update] [upgrade] [world] [install pkg] [remove pkg] [info pkg]

Overview

apt-build is an apt-get frontend to build and install architecture optimized packages.

Commands

`update`	Retrieve new lists of packages
`upgrade`	Perform an upgrade
`world`	Rebuild your system
`install`	Build and install new packages
`source`	Download and extract source in the build directory
`info`	Info on a package which could be built
`remove`	Remove packages
`clean-build`	Erase built packages
`clean-sources`	Call debian/rules clean in source directories
`build-source`	Build source without installing them
`update-source`	Update sources and rebuild them if they are missing in the repository
`build-repository`	Rebuild the repository

Options

--help: Shows help

--nowrapper: Do not use the gcc wrapper

--remove-builddep: Remove build-dependencies installed by apt-build

--no-source: Don't download source

--build-dir: Specify build-dir

--build-only: Build package only

--rebuild: Rebuild a package

--reinstall: Build and install an already installed package

--build-command <command>: Use this command to build package

--patch <file>: Apply this patch before build (you can use this option one or several times)

--patch-strip, -p <number>: Prefix to strip on patch (0 = -p0, 1 = -p1 ...)

--yes, -y: Assume yes

--purge: Use purge instead of remove

--noupdate: Do not run 'apt-get update' before package installation

--sources-list: Specify sources.list file

--apt-get: Specify an alternative apt-get command

--apt-cache: Specify an alternative apt-cache command

--force-yes: Force yes

--source: Do not download source (sources are extracted already)

--repository-dir: Specify the repository directory

--target-release: Distribution to fetch packages from

--config: Specify an alternative configuration file

--version, -v: Show version

Releases

11 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 2 times.

--apt-cache since Debian 4.0 (Etch); --apt-get since Debian 4.0 (Etch); --config since Debian 4.0 (Etch); --force-yes since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); --repository-dir since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); --source since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); --target-release since Debian 5.0 (Lenny).