Rodolfo Medina wrote: >Hi. > >I'm newbie with Debian, so please bear with my inexperience. >In my Sarge stable, when I do: > > # apt-get build-dep emacs21 > >I get the following output: > > Building Dependency Tree... Done > E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list > >. The debian-emacsen listers suggested me to properly edit the file >'/etc/apt/sources.list', which is the following: > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >#deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main > >deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0a _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-2 >(20050607)\]/ unstable contrib main >deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0a _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-1 >(20050607)\]/ unstable contrib main > > ># deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >, then to handle the 'apt-cdrom' tool; but I really >don't know how. Here's my '/var/lib/apt/cdroms.list': > > > >------------------------------------------------------- >CD::ca516dca38db4d7175e5e976215935ff-2 "Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0a _Sarge_ - >Official i386 Binary-1 (20050607)"; >CD::ca516dca38db4d7175e5e976215935ff-2::Label "Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0a >_Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20050607)"; >CD::292bfddab46e89a674ff592cc76ff195-2 "Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0a _Sarge_ - >Official i386 Binary-2 (20050607)"; >CD::292bfddab46e89a674ff592cc76ff195-2::Label "Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0a >_Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-2 (20050607)"; >------------------------------------------------------- > > > >. Please could you provide some basic help to such a basic problem? >Thanks in advance, >Rodolfo > > > > In a nutshell, you need to be able to get the *source code*, not just the compiled binaries in order to make use of build-dep. You have two *binary* CD's, do you have a source CD? You need to get them. (And the versions must be the same, afaik)
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