Comment 5 for bug 430203

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Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething) wrote : Re: [Bug 430203] Re: bell.ogg is unresponsive (outside HIG response times) [regression]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:16 AM, Robert Schroll <email address hidden> wrote:
> Dunno.  Is there an easy way to do this?  I tried apt-getting the
> source, making the change by hand, and building, using the Ubuntu Wiki's
> PackageUpdate guide.  But on `debuild -S -sa`, I get an error, the
> relevant portion of which seems to be:
>
> debian/rules:3: /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/debhelper.mk: No such file or directory
> debian/rules:4: /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/simple-patchsys.mk: No such file or directory
> debian/rules:5: /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/gnome.mk: No such file or directory
> debian/rules:6: /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/utils.mk: No such file or directory
> debian/rules:7: /usr/share/gnome-pkg-tools/1/rules/uploaders.mk: No such file or directory
> debian/rules:8: /usr/share/gnome-pkg-tools/1/rules/gnome-version.mk: No such file or directory
> make: *** No rule to make target `/usr/share/gnome-pkg-tools/1/rules/gnome-version.mk'.  Stop.
> dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules clean gave error exit status 2
> debuild: fatal error at line 1334:
> dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -d -us -uc -S -sa failed

You seem to not have cdbs, a build dependency for metacity, installed. Run:

sudo apt-get build-dep metacity

That will install all needed build dependencies.