2012/4/3 Alfred M. Szmidt <ams@gnu....>:
>   $ apt-get build-dep $PROGRAM;
>   $ apt-get source $PROGRAM;
>   $ cd PROGRAM/;
>   $ ./configure;
>   $ make;
>   $ make install;
>
>   What is not easy about this? :-)
>
> That will not build with the same switches as the original package was
> built, and it will install in /usr/local which does not work for all
> packages.
>

$ apt-get build-dep $PROGRAM;
$ apt-get source -b $PROGRAM

will build it with same options as it was built by the package maintainer.
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