*- On 12 Jul, Norbert Bous wrote about "deb sources with apt" > Hi folks, > > what line should I use to get Debian sources with apt-get? > > Norbert > >
This is what I have been using to grab potato sources for my slink system. Not all mirror's carry sources so find the closest mirror that has sources. deb-src http://debian.midco.net/debian potato main contrib non-free Then cd to a some place like /usr/local/src and execute apt-get update; apt-get source <package_name> if you want to build the Debian package automatically add a --compile option, apt-get --compile source <package_name>. You will need to have the appropriate -dev packages installed since source depends are not available yet and you will also need the dpkg-dev package to build the debian packages from the source. -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------
