Re: installing sources to make binaries out of it.

2007-07-23 Thread Michael Bienia
On 2007-07-23 21:15:17 +0530, shirish wrote: > Now obviously this is for debian, do we have something like that for > ubuntu. There are packages which don't have binaries. For instance > these games :- Why do you have the impression that this package won't work on Ubuntu? > https://launchpad.net/

installing sources to make binaries out of it.

2007-07-23 Thread shirish
Hi all, I was reading one of the debian mailing lists & came across this command :- [quote] I find it easy enough to do: $ sudo apt-get update $ apt-src -bi install $package apt-src will then "install" the source of the package into the current working directory, then "b"uild it, and then