Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 06:00:02PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: [...] > >> sudo apt-get build-dep texmacs > >> sudo apt-get source texmacs [...] > > > > Are those things a newbie cares about? I've never used them in > > the 8 years I've been using debian. > > Probably not! But if you want to compile debian packages from source > then I think you need those commands.
Not necessarily. There is 'apt-src', which I personally prefer for building debian packages from source (which I currently only do for two packages). Regards, Frank -- In protocol design, perfection has been reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -- RFC 1925 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]