Hi t, thanks very much for the help. Responses below:
On 2024-03-04 10:05, [email protected] wrote: > There's an automatic way to do this: install the build > dependencies: > > sudo apt-get install build-dep <your-package> I get an error: ~ $ sudo apt-get install build-dep xfce4-screensaver [sudo] password for m: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package build-dep ~ [100] $ The man page tells me the syntax is actually apt-get build-dep [pkg], not apt-get install build-dep [pkg]. That gets me to here: ~ $ sudo apt-get build-dep xfce4-screensaver Reading package lists... Done E: You must put some 'deb-src' URIs in your sources.list ~ [100] $ > This might be due to package "build-essential" missing (which, I > think, would have come with "install build-dep"). But not quite > sure about that. I guess build-essential won't be listed as an > explicit build dependency. I have it installed: $ apt search build-essential Sorting... Done Full Text Search... Done build-essential/stable,now 12.9 amd64 [installed] Informational list of build-essential packages > > Are you building xfce4-screensaver from the Debian package source, > or from upstream? >From git master at the aforelinked gitlab repo.
