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 included in the /etc/apt/sources.list file.

3. Ensure the fakeroot program is installed:

   $> sudo apt-get install fakeroot
   

4. Ensure that the ssl-cert package is installed. Failing to install this package will cause trouble with the compiled...