Heya guys,
I wanted to try to modify some packages so I started with firefox, to change my default bookmarks.
These are the things I've done:
1) Downloaded firefox_1.0.7-0ubuntu20_i386.deb
Then I converted it to a .tgz file with alien
2) sudo alien --to-tgz firefox_1.0.7-0ubuntu20_i386.deb
I extracted the tgz >>
3) tar -zxf firefox-1.0.7.tgz
Then you get 3 directories: usr, etc and var. (for easy i've removed the .tgz file)
I put them together again:
4) tar -czf firefox-1.0.7.tgz {etc,usr,var}
Made a debian file:
5) sudo alien --to-deb firefox-1.0.7.tgz
And I installed the debian file:
6) sudo dpkg -i firefox_1.0.7-2_all.deb
But for reasons this doens't work...
If I just do steps 1, 2, 5 and 6 it does work.
Anybody has an idea why this doesn't work? There aren't any hidden files either...
Greetz