How to install a .dsc file on linux
From FilExt.com:
Debian (Source Control (Source Package)) Typically lower case on *nix systems. Description File DPKG-source
Debian source packages consist of two or three files. First the *.DSC file which contains some information information about the package and checksums for the remaining file(s). Second a *.TAR.GZ holding the upstream sources. And third, if any changes need to be made to the sources, they are distributed as *.DIFF.GZ. To simplify the unpacking process a single command, "dpkg-source -x *.dsc", is provided by Debian to unpack these files. This association is classified as Source Code.
From Linuxquestions.org
Full procedure to install the package related to a .dsc
file:
Before you begin, note that, besides the
.dsc
file, you must have the correspondingxxx-orig.tar.xz
andxxx-debian.tar.xz
files.Install
dpkg-dev
package, if not present in your linux machinesudo apt-get install dpkg-dev
Following command extracts the package into an automatically created directory. Note: the necessary
xxx-orig.tar.xz
andxxx-debian.tar.xz
files must be in the same directory as the.dsc
file in order to work properly.dpkg-source -x yourfile.dsc
If you get error message concerning the signature, check this post here.
To build the package get into the directory that was created in 2nd step and issue below command
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b
to install the built package issue below command
dpkg -i ../yourfile_arch.deb