Main > Reference Manual > Download and install > Installing on Linux, Unix and Cygwin > Build instructions > Build instructions for Debian-based linux systems
Debian, Ubuntu, Knoppix,... are all linux distribution based on debian. The same set of instructions applies to build the frePPLe package.
- Install the packages required for the build. This steps requires root privileges.
apt-get build-dep frepple
- Download the source package and build the package.
apt-get -b source frepple
- The previous step produces a binary installation file that can now be installed. This steps requires root privileges.
dpkg -i frepple*.deb