Easiest way to compile dovecot on Ubuntu 14.04

[Steffen Kaiser]

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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 ;-)

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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

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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