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 <h1>Creating Debian packages</h1>
 After the source tarballs have been tested, Debian source and binary
 packages can be created. To do so, upload the source tarballs to a
-Debian system, and do the following:<br>
+Debian system, install the packages needed to install Campcaster,
+plus two more needed for the build process: <code>debhelper</code> and
+<code>fakeroot</code>.  Then do the following:<br>
 <br>
 <pre>tar xfj campcaster-&lt;ls-version&gt;.tar.bz2
 tar xfj campcaster-libraries-&lt;ls-version&gt;.tar.bz2