How To Rebuild Scite For GTK2 On Debian

While rebuilding scite to apply my shorter tabs patch I saw that it was trivial to also make scite use gtk2 rather than gtk3.

All you have to do is:

1. Obtain scite source via apt-get source scite.
2. Get the patch: wget http://bsdpower.com/rebuild-scite-for-gtk2-on-debian-jessie/scite-debian-gtk2-patch.diff
3. Change into the scite directory: cd scite-*
4. Apply the patch: patch -p0 <../scite-debian-gtk2-patch.diff
5. Rebuild the package: dpkg-buildpackage The build step will fail at signing, but it would have produced the .deb files by then which is all we need.
6. As root, install the new package: dpkg -i .../scite_*.deb