To rebuild a grisbi .deb package # get the dpkg-source program sudo apt-get install dpkg-dev # get the debuild program sudo apt-get install devscripts # get the grisbi source code and packaging wget http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/grisbi/grisbi_2.0.0-1.debian.tar.xz wget http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/grisbi/grisbi_2.0.0-1.dsc wget http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/grisbi/grisbi_2.0.0-1.debian.tar.xz # extract the source cocde dpkg-source -x grisbi_2.0.0-1.dsc cd grisbi-2.0.0/ # install grisbi 2.0 build dependencies sudo apt-get build-dep grisbi # build the package debuild # install the packages cd .. sudo dpkg -i grisbi_2.0.0-1_amd64.deb grisbi-common_2.0.0-1_all.deb