Re: source packages install

2005-12-12 Thread Fritz Wettstein
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 07:16:23PM +0100, Fritz Wettstein wrote: > In /etc/apt/source.list everything is commented by #, in the mean time > I've also commented the cdrom entries, made a apt-get update and a > apt-get upgrade. This didn't change anything: the apt-get install cpio > always result

Re: Re: source packages install

2005-12-12 Thread Fritz Wettstein
In /etc/apt/source.list everything is commented by #, in the mean time I've also commented the cdrom entries, made a apt-get update and a apt-get upgrade. This didn't change anything: the apt-get install cpio always results in "cpio is allready up to date" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Re: source packages install

2005-12-12 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 07:16:23PM +0100, Fritz Wettstein wrote: > In /etc/apt/source.list everything is commented by #, in the mean time > I've also commented the cdrom entries, made a apt-get update and a > apt-get upgrade. This didn't change anything: the apt-get install cpio > always result

Re: source packages install

2005-12-12 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 11:06:04AM -0500, Martin Lefebvre wrote: > go with checkinstall... > > really simple: > > # ./configure ... > # make > # checkinstall > > it generates and installs a fresh debian package for you I think he might still at the point of haveing to he told how and where from

Re: source packages install

2005-12-12 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 04:17:30PM +0100, Fritz Wettstein wrote: > How do I install a source package for example cpio? This package doesn't > show up in dselect and as far as I know the name of the source package is > the same as the binary. Do you have proper source resource entries in your /etc/a

Re: source packages install

2005-12-12 Thread Martin Lefebvre
go with checkinstall... really simple: # ./configure ... # make # checkinstall it generates and installs a fresh debian package for you On 12/12/05, Fritz Wettstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I install a source package for example cpio? This package doesn't > show up in dselect and as

Re: source packages install

2005-12-12 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Fritz Wettstein wrote: > How do I install a source package for example cpio? This package doesn't > show up in dselect and as far as I know the name of the source package is > the same as the binary. > Are you referring an upstream source tarball or a Debian source package? -Roberto -- Roberto

Re: Source packages

2004-03-30 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 30 March 2004 11:34, Colin Watson wrote: > Native packages have just a .tar.gz and .dsc, not .orig.tar.gz, .diff.gz > and .dsc like normal packages. > > > I do see some meta files, but these aren't mentioned in the .apt > > documentation > >

Re: Source packages

2004-03-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 11:26:29AM -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > I was wanting to look at the source to kde-core and tried to install > it using apt. I went to the apt documentation at debian.org for the > "how-to". Unfortunately, it's not the results I expected - and I don't > see anything i

Re: Source packages for unstable - where?

2001-10-11 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Piotr Sulecki wrote: > Yes, I did, but "apt-get source" always gave me the sources for the > stable version, never finding the ones in unstable (I have no deb-src > lines referring to testing). As if there was no sources for the package > in unstable. > > However, thanks to

Re: Source packages

1999-12-24 Thread Marcin Kurc
you need the entry deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free in /etc/apt/sources.list then, apt-get update ; apt-get source --compile --build package.deb for more info check out "man apt-get" Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 05:59:11PM +0200, Tadas wrote: > Hello, > > How c

Re: Source Packages

1996-09-01 Thread Ian Jackson
Haakan Ardoe writes ("Source Packages"): > how does the source packages work? If I understand everyting right I am > supposed to unpack them with dpkg-source -x .dsc. But then I need the > .dsc file, which not seems to be included in any of the availble > source packages. Where can I find or gener