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Arch makes it trivially easy to poke at the source code for any particular package, which has immensely helped me learn how things work. I'm just curious: did

• icebraining 14y ago
  apt-get source [package-name] This downloads the source of the package to the current directory. To compile, first install the compilation dependencies: apt-get build-dep [package-name] Then inside the source directory, the easiest way is to install debuild and then just run: debuild That compiles and creates a .deb ready to install. The New Maintainers guide[1] has a lot of information, though most is only relevant if you want to become an official Debian maintainer; for tweaking existing packages, it's not important. [1]: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/index.en.html http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/index.en.html