On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 01:23:37AM +0100, Matthias Wieser wrote: > Is it possible to force APT to install from source?
Yes. > I want to edit my sources.list that way, that apt just get's the sources > and then compiles everything himself. is that possible or is that utopy > getting into my mind? Example: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main Then, apt-get -b install package will download, build and install. apt-get source package Will bring the sources for you and unpack under the current directory. :-) J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
