Easiest way to compile dovecot on Ubuntu 14.04

[Kevin Laurie]

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:
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>  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
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>> Any faster means? Also cant get dpkg-dev installed on my system.
>>
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> Well, this is the Debian way, so why would dpkg-dev balk at installation?
> On Debian based machines, this should be the easiest way ;-)
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> 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
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> 2b) create a new configuration from scratch with help from the Debian
> package, but to install into /usr/local or /opt.
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>
> - -- Steffen Kaiser
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