Error while installing new dpkg-dev
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Hello,
I need to update dpkg-dev on my stable Debian. I tried built id from sources. I built dpkg, installed it and installed libdpkg-perl, then I got the following error.
root@kron:/home/kron/qwe# apt-get -b source libdpkg-perl
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency treeÂ
Reading state information… Done
Picking 'dpkg' as source package instead of 'libdpkg-perl'
NOTICE: 'dpkg' packaging is maintained in the 'Git' version control system at:
git://git.debian.org/git/dpkg/dpkg.git
Skipping already downloaded file 'dpkg_1.16.2.dsc'
Skipping already downloaded file 'dpkg_1.16.2.tar.bz2'
Need to get 0 B of source archives.
Skipping unpack of already unpacked source in dpkg-1.16.2
sh: dpkg-buildpackage: not found
Build command 'cd dpkg-1.16.2 && dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc' failed.
N: Ignoring file 'google-chrome.list.save' in directory '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension
N: Ignoring file 'dropbox.list.save' in directory '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension
E: Child process failed
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Please explain me how to get rid of this trouble.
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Thanks.
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