you started out like this, I merely responded. Unlike many others, who didn't bother - presumably due to your choice of words? I don't know.
emarkay wrote in Fri Jan 06, 2012 12:33 am: 'ave you got an installable .deb for me and us? Well? Come on, it's apparently so easy! Go for it. I know you can! Do it, do it, do it. Prove your skills; show your awareness of it all! Send me a link to this file and I'll install it, on 3 machines, and test it out...
Well, thanks for the challenge, I don't feel challenged, interested or inclined at all. I wouldn't even be interested if I were a debian user and had debian locally installed. This isn't about my skills. You started talking about "bovine fecal matter", which is probably not the way to get people interested in helping you.
Yet, I provided some pointers to get you started. I don't know if it's simple, I don't know if it's difficult. In fact, I have never tried doing that. All I know is, that building FG from source is absolutely possible if you follow the instructions. It's been made easier than ever before since the move to cmake. Especially, for Linux users.
Yes, sometimes it's taken quite a while to satisfy all dependencies, but overall I haven't yet failed building FG for a number of different distributions.
Finally, trying to be helpful again: maybe do a forum/mailing list search and look out for fellow FG users using "debian". IIRC, the major problem related to debian is their insistence on using shared libraries, this is a well known and long standing thing, which has been frequently brought up on the developers mailing list, too.
Obviously, this is more of a problem for people insisting on installing binary packages, rather than buiilding from source themselves.