Repairing apachetop in Intrepid Ibex (8.10)
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008It’s a shame that one of my favorite tools is broken in Ubuntu 8.10. It crashes right after you rune it with segmentation fault. There is a patch in launchpad Bug #294599 but it did not work for me. I was getting some crypted error message. Finally after 10 minutes of googleing and trying i got the solution.
Here are the steps to build your own package:
- sudo apt-get install build-essential fakeroot devscripts
- mkdir apachetop && cdapachetop
- wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19754557/apachetop.debdiff
- apt-get source apachetop
- cd apachetop-0.12.6 && patch -p1 < ../apachetop.debdiff
Now before you do anything we have to make one small change to the code by hand:
$ vim src/apachetop.cc
go to line 967 (in vim write 967G) and replace line
char realfile[MAXPATHLEN];
with:
char realfile[PATH_MAX];
now go to the apachetop-0.12.6 directory and do:
$ debuild -uc -us
after compiling is successfully you can install your new package with:
$ sudo dpkg -i ../apachetop_0.12.6-8ubuntu1_i386.deb
Hope it will help someone.
PS: Installation steps based on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuPackagingGuide/BuildFromDebdiff?highlight=(debdiff)