Install Pencil on Debian

Pencil is a pretty nice open-source GUI prototyping tool. The only little problem for Debian user is, Pencil depends on Firefox and not on Iceweasel. If you want to bypass that problem very easy, you can download pencil as Firefox Extension. But if you want to use Pencil as native application you have to download the deb package and will see, that it depends on Firefox. Iceweasel and Firefox are the same things, but have different names.

Here is a Wikipedia articel about Mozilla Corporation software rebranded by the Debian project.
You can run dpkg also with --ignore-depends=firefox, but that isn't a very good solution.

Change the dependencies from Firefox to Iceweasel

Ravi Teja wrote a good post about Modify dependencies, add/remove files of debian(.deb) package. Now we just have to change firefox to iceweasel in DEBIAN/control of the package.

Download the latest version of Pencil

wget https://evoluspencil.googlecode.com/files/evoluspencil_2.0.5_all.deb

Uncompress the debian package

dpkg-deb -x evoluspencil_2.0.5_all.deb dir_tmp
dpkg-deb --control evoluspencil_2.0.5_all.deb dir_tmp/DEBIAN

Edit file dir_tmp/DEBIAN/control

Just replace firefox with iceweasel in line 6.
Package: evoluspencil
Version: 2.0.5
Architecture: all
Maintainer: Nguyen Hong Thai 
Installed-Size: 8952
Depends: iceweasel
Section: unknown
Priority: extra
Homepage: http://pencil-project.org/
Description: Evolus Pencil
  Pencil is an open source GUI prototyping and sketching tools released under GPL.

Repack the debian package

dpkg -b dir_tmp evoluspencil_2.0.5_all.deb

Install the package

sudo dpkg -i evoluspencil_2.0.5_all.deb
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