Re: 1st try at packaging perl program

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 04:35:11PM +0100, Etienne Grossmann wrote:
> 
> 
> From: Paolo Molaro <lupus@debian.org>
> 
> #  >   Would anyone be willing to send me the source tree of a debian
> #  > package that wraps a perl program/module (or send me the url for one)?
> #
> #  apt-get source lib*-perl should do it.
> 
>   Silly question : where do I get source packages? I did what I think
>   correct from the sources.list, apt-get manpages (put deb-src lines
>   in sources.list, just like deb lines), but still get : 
> 
> anonimo:/home/etienne/prog/perl/bloksi/tmp# apt-get source mailtools
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> E: Could not open file /var/state/apt/lists/sunsite.org.uk_Mirrors_ftp.debian.org_pub_debian_dists_potato_contrib_source_Sources - open (2 No such file or directory)

Have you done an apt-get update or dselect update?

   Julian

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