How to Repack Deb Files on Debian and Ubuntu

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Marius Nestor
Nov 30, 2013

Once in a while you reach a moment in life when, among other things, you want to modify a .deb file, to change something in it and repackage it back. But, only if you are truly into computing and hacking.

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Marius Nestor

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