June 19, 2015

Add Build Options To Nginx Via Apt-Get Ubuntu

These instructions aren’t mine, but are a slightly modified version of the ones listed on serverfault.com thanks to cwd as a reminder for myself with upcoming Nginx updates.

CD to a location you’re happy to work in with the source files:

cd /usr/src

Install dpkg-dev:

sudo apt-get install dpkg-dev

Add repository:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/stable

Edit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nginx-stable-*.list, add uncomment dpkg-src:

deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/nginx/stable/ubuntu release-name-here main

note: (the previous step may have already been automatically performed on Ubuntu >= 12.04 – also make sure that you change release-name-here to reflect your version, the most important part is to uncomment the deb-src field as it will use that to download the source in the upcoming step)

Resynchronize the package index files:

sudo apt-get update

Get sources:

apt-get source nginx

Build dependencies:

sudo apt-get build-dep nginx

Edit nginx-*(version-here)/debian/rules (update the section you want to install, be it light/full/common e.g. extras_configure_flags :=):

--with-threads

Build package:

cd nginx-*(version-here) && dpkg-buildpackage -b

Install packages (change the deb version and OS name as needed):

dpkg --install nginx-common_1.2.4-2ubuntu0ppa1~precise_all.deb
dpkg --install nginx-full_1.2.4-2ubuntu0ppa1~precise_amd64.deb

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