On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 02:51:52AM -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > > I need to get sources for the Linux version of certain programs that > reside in a package called "bsdutils". I have built and installed > the "apt-get" program and now I'm just trying to use it, and things > are going very badly indeed. > > Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong here? The errors I am > getting are shown below, and here are the current contents of my > /usr/local/etc/apt/sources.list file:
I haven't used APT in a while, but I recall the existence of an
apt-get-like tool specifically for dealing with source, called apt-src.
You should be able to install it on your system and sift through its
manpage at your leisure:
apt-get install apt-src
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Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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