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Just to get these things out of the way, I'm running Debian Sarge 3.1 r1 and only got the 1st CD since I want to later upgrade to Testing and ...
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    Which package has dh_testdir?

    Just to get these things out of the way, I'm running Debian Sarge 3.1 r1 and only got the 1st CD since I want to later upgrade to Testing and get my packages through FTP.

    I'm pretty much trying to install the at76c503a driver (it's a wireless network adapter driver) and keep running into problems. I had an earlier issue, which I never got solved, so I tried a different approach. So I got the Atmel packages from the Ubuntu repository because the Debian repository has been down for the past week. I install the packages and go on to compiling the driver (the packages are atmel-firmware and at76c503a-source). So I unpack the tar-ball that is installed in /usr/src but the at76c503a-source package and do the following:
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    debian/rules binary-modules KVERS=2.4.27-2-386
    (which is pretty much a copy-paste from another thread and this has worked in the past for me)

    So it starts compiling and everything is going nice and dandy until it tries to run the command "dh_testdir" and make spits out and error because the command can't be found. Now I try searching for this command, but can't seem to find which package it's in.

    Any help would be appreciated. And don't forget I'm on CLI only, with nothing some basic tools to get the adapter up and running so I can start upgrading.

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    It should be part of debhelper
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    Thank, I actually found the answer last night after searching for something completely unrelated, and forgot to post it!

    After I got that package, everything went smoothly.

    Thank anyway!

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    Just FYI: There is a great Debian tool for this type of question called Packagesearch that is extremely feature rich.
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