help needed regarding installation

["Zainab Rehman" <l050943@nu.edu.pk>]

I am trying to install a source package "bnfc" using different package management tools and tried options but having problems:

 

While running commands (red coloured font) to install a source package i am having problems (green coloured font)

 

Using apt

  

debianabc:/home/fast# cd debian
debianabc:/home/fast/debian# apt-get source bnfc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list
debianabc:/home/fast/debian# apt-get build-dep bnfc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list
debianabc:/home/fast/debian# cd bnfc2.2
bash: cd: bnfc2.2: No such file or directory
debianabc:/home/fast/debian# cd bnfc-2.2
debianabc:/home/fast/debian/bnfc-2.2# debuild -uc -us
bash: debuild: command not found
debianabc:/home/fast/debian/bnfc-2.2#

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Error Identified: devscripts package was to be installed, so i tried installing that using aptitude but....

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Using aptitude

I placed the required files i.e .dsc file+.tar.gz file at the following location /root/debian

 debian:~# pwd

/root

debian:~# cd debian

debian:~/debian# aptitude install devscripts

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree... Done

Reading extended state information

Initializing package states... Done

Reading task descriptions... Done

Building tag database... Done

Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "devscripts"

No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.

0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.

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Regards,
Zainab Rehman