dovecot - Jan 2015 - Easiest way to compile dovecot on Ubuntu 14.04

Hello,

I need to recompile dovecot on ubuntu 14.04
What would be the easiest way to do this?

I am trying to follow this tutorial:-
https://blog.vbonhomme.fr/add-full-text-search-fts-to-your-dovecot-using-solr-4-10-on-ubuntu-14-04/

When I run :-
 apt-get source dovecot
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
NOTICE: 'dovecot' packaging is maintained in the 'Git' version
control
system at:
git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/dovecot.git
Need to get 5759 kB of source archives.
Get:1 http://mirrors.gandi.net/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main dovecot
1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2.1 (dsc) [3136 B]
Get:2 http://mirrors.gandi.net/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main dovecot
1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2.1 (tar) [4541 kB]
Get:3 http://mirrors.gandi.net/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main dovecot
1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2.1 (diff) [1215 kB]
Fetched 5759 kB in 0s (8141 kB/s)
sh: 1: dpkg-source: not found
Unpack command 'dpkg-source -x dovecot_2.2.9-1ubuntu2.1.dsc' failed.
Check if the 'dpkg-dev' package is installed.
E: Child process failed


Any faster means? Also cant get dpkg-dev installed on my system.

Thanks
Kevin

Zitat von Kevin Laurie <superinterstellar at gmail.com>:
> Hello,
>
> I need to recompile dovecot on ubuntu 14.04
> What would be the easiest way to do this?
>
> I am trying to follow this tutorial:-
>
https://blog.vbonhomme.fr/add-full-text-search-fts-to-your-dovecot-using-solr-4-10-on-ubuntu-14-04/
Yes, there is a much, much faster way:

apt-get install dovecot-solr

14.04 LTS already provides a nifty binary package for it, no need to  
compile it yourself. The blogger should have done his home work better.

Regards,
Marc

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On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Kevin Laurie wrote:
> sh: 1: dpkg-source: not found
> Unpack command 'dpkg-source -x dovecot_2.2.9-1ubuntu2.1.dsc'
failed.
> Check if the 'dpkg-dev' package is installed.
> E: Child process failed
>
> Any faster means? Also cant get dpkg-dev installed on my system.
Well, this is the Debian way, so why would dpkg-dev balk at installation? 
On Debian based machines, this should be the easiest way ;-)

====
variant 2)
Pull the sources from dovecot.org via tarball or mercurial. If you need 
Sieve and other plugins, I would not call this variant easier.

Then you have to option to

2a) try to apply the configuration from the Debian package to the source, 
in order to have a replacement for the original package, or

2b) create a new configuration from scratch with help from the Debian 
package, but to install into /usr/local or /opt.


- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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Dear Marc.
Thanks =)
Already have dovecot-solr installed.
Is there a way to see if dovecot-solr is actually working?

Thanks
Kevin




On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Marc St?rmer <mail at marc-stuermer.de>
wrote:
>
> Zitat von Kevin Laurie <superinterstellar at gmail.com>:
>
>  Hello,
>>
>> I need to recompile dovecot on ubuntu 14.04
>> What would be the easiest way to do this?
>>
>> I am trying to follow this tutorial:-
>> https://blog.vbonhomme.fr/add-full-text-search-fts-to-your-
>> dovecot-using-solr-4-10-on-ubuntu-14-04/
>>
>
> Yes, there is a much, much faster way:
>
> apt-get install dovecot-solr
>
> 14.04 LTS already provides a nifty binary package for it, no need to
> compile it yourself. The blogger should have done his home work better.
>
> Regards,
> Marc
>

Dear Steffen,
Variant 2 does look more challenging but I don't think its necessary if
dovecot-solr is already available and installed.
I guess the problem is with something else.
Thanks
Kevin

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Steffen Kaiser <
skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:
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> On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Kevin Laurie wrote:
>
>  sh: 1: dpkg-source: not found
>> Unpack command 'dpkg-source -x dovecot_2.2.9-1ubuntu2.1.dsc'
failed.
>> Check if the 'dpkg-dev' package is installed.
>> E: Child process failed
>>
>> Any faster means? Also cant get dpkg-dev installed on my system.
>>
>
> Well, this is the Debian way, so why would dpkg-dev balk at installation?
> On Debian based machines, this should be the easiest way ;-)
>
> ====>
> variant 2)
> Pull the sources from dovecot.org via tarball or mercurial. If you need
> Sieve and other plugins, I would not call this variant easier.
>
> Then you have to option to
>
> 2a) try to apply the configuration from the Debian package to the source,
> in order to have a replacement for the original package, or
>
> 2b) create a new configuration from scratch with help from the Debian
> package, but to install into /usr/local or /opt.
>
>
> - -- Steffen Kaiser
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