[SOLVED] I want to replace a file in a deb package. how can I do that?

Droidx · 08-23-2012, 02:38 PM

It is a repo on cydia.
I extract the deb package, and it give me data.tar.
I extract the data.tar.
it have a file two file, pultil and 20452.prl (perfer romaining list for cricket)

bascailly the pultil file's function is to move 20452.prl to a location on the iphone.

I want to put a metropcs prl instead of a cricket prl in that package instead.

Is there a easy way just to replace the prl?
Can I just extract the files, replace the prl and repackage it?

Thank you.

bigrigdriver · 08-23-2012, 10:43 PM

Maybe the Debian New Maintainers' Guide can help. See Chapter 3, Modifying the Source.

Hungry ghost · 08-23-2012, 11:26 PM

Code:

mkdir packagename
dpkg-deb -R package.deb packagename

The above commands will create a directory named 'packagename' and extract the contents of the package inside this directory. Do the changes you need to the fake file system inside the 'packagename' directory, and then use dpkg-deb again to build a deb package from the extracted package:

Code:

dpkg-deb -b packagename packagename_version_architecture.deb

(Of course, substitute 'packagename' for the real package name).

Regards.

Droidx · 08-26-2012, 06:19 PM

awesome, thank you alot alot alot. it works.

Hungry ghost · 08-26-2012, 07:02 PM

Good. Glad it worked.

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