Hi Robert, I do not know how to make correct deb files. Here my recipe to install from source avoiding command line as much as possible and having the option to revert unwanted changes via synaptic. Using synaptic (or comparable software) install: python-gtk2-dev python-gconf at gnome-doc-utils scrollkeeper This will install additional libs you need later (that is were I failed in my first attempt). Download the gnome-schedule-2.3.0.tar.gz from https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnome-schedule/ Extract the file in your home directory under a new directory e.g ~/src/gnome-schedule-2.3.0/ Go into this directory - you can operate without sudo (changes are only done in this directory): georg@InaUbuntu:~/src/gnome-schedule-2.3.0$ ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... no checking for mawk... mawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether make supports nested variables... yes checking for python2... /usr/bin/python2 checking for python version... 2.7 checking for python platform... linux2 checking for python script directory... ${prefix}/lib/python2.7/dist-packages checking for python extension module directory... ${exec_prefix}/lib/python2.7/dist-packages checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes checking for PYGTK... yes checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking PYTHONPATH env variable for PyGTK... /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages checking for gtk.glade... found checking for python gconf... found checking for crontab... /usr/bin/crontab checking for at... /usr/bin/at checking for atq... /usr/bin/atq checking for atrm... /usr/bin/atrm checking for batch... /usr/bin/batch checking for su... /bin/su checking for xsltproc... /usr/bin/xsltproc checking for whether to include GNOME panel applet..... no checking whether ln -s works... yes checking gnome-doc-utils >= 0.3.2... yes checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes checking dependency style of gcc... none checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking locale.h usability... yes checking locale.h presence... yes checking for locale.h... yes checking for LC_MESSAGES... yes checking libintl.h usability... yes checking libintl.h presence... yes checking for libintl.h... yes checking for ngettext in libc... yes checking for dgettext in libc... yes checking for bind_textdomain_codeset... yes checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt checking for dcgettext... yes checking if msgfmt accepts -c... yes checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext checking for catalogs to be installed... ar bg bs ca cs da de dz el en_CA en_GB es eu fi fr gl gu hu id it ja lt nb ne nl nn oc pa pl pt pt_BR ro ru rw sl sq sr sr@latin sv tr uk vi zh_CN zh_HK zh_TW checking whether NLS is requested... yes ./configure: line 6045: intltool-update: command not found checking for intltool-update... no checking for intltool-merge... no checking for intltool-extract... no configure: error: The intltool scripts were not found. Please install intltool. georg@InaUbuntu:~/src/gnome-schedule-2.3.0$ intltool is missing, go back to synaptic and install. Depending upon your setup you may need install other stuff (see list above). repeat ./configure this time ... checking that generated files are newer than configure... done configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating src/config.py config.status: creating src/Makefile config.status: creating src/gnome-schedule config.status: creating src/gnome-schedule-export config.status: creating src/gnome-schedule-import config.status: creating icons/Makefile config.status: creating po/Makefile.in config.status: creating desktop/Makefile config.status: creating desktop/gnome-schedule.desktop.in config.status: creating servers/Makefile config.status: creating servers/GNOME_GnomeSchedule.server.in config.status: creating help/Makefile config.status: executing depfiles commands config.status: executing default-1 commands config.status: executing po/stamp-it commands georg@InaUbuntu:~/src/gnome-schedule-2.3.0$ now make (long output) Please close synaptic now - otherwise there will be an error. georg@InaUbuntu:~/src/gnome-schedule-2.3.0$ sudo checkinstall <=== here sudo needed (changes are made to system) [sudo] Passwort für georg: checkinstall 1.6.2, Copyright 2009 Felipe Eduardo Sanchez Diaz Duran Diese Software wurde unter der GNU GPL veröffentlicht The package documentation directory ./doc-pak does not exist. Should I create a default set of package docs? [y]: Bereite Paket-Dokumentation vor...OK Bitte geben Sie eine Beschreibung für das Paket ein. Beenden Sie Ihre Beschreibung mit einer leeren Zeile oder EOF. >> gnome-schedule 2.3 manual installed ***************************************** **** Debian package creation selected *** ***************************************** Das Paket wird entsprechend dieser Vorgaben erstellt: 0 - Maintainer: [ root@InaUbuntu ] 1 - Summary: [ gnome-schedule 2.3 manual installed ] 2 - Name: [ gnome-schedule ] 3 - Version: [ 2.3.0 ] 4 - Release: [ 1 ] 5 - License: [ GPL ] 6 - Group: [ checkinstall ] 7 - Architecture: [ amd64 ] 8 - Source location: [ gnome-schedule-2.3.0 ] 9 - Alternate source location: [ ] 10 - Requires: [ ] 11 - Provides: [ gnome-schedule ] 12 - Conflicts: [ ] 13 - Replaces: [ ] Geben Sie die betreffende Nummer ein, um die Vorgaben zu ändern: No need to change here, to make it perfect it would, I guess, be required to indicate all the needed libs which I do not know exactly. A lot of output & takes some time. Checkinstall creates a *.deb file which you may use on a similar computer. I prefer this method since I can deinstall later via synpatic when something went wrong. georg@InaUbuntu:~/src/gnome-schedule-2.3.0$ ls *.deb gnome-schedule_2.3.0-1_amd64.deb georg@InaUbuntu:~/src/gnome-schedule-2.3.0$ gnome-schedule .. Enjoy ! Afer rebooting gnome-schedule is found vie dash. Good luck !