Re: Getting package from "testing" for potato

[Rob Mahurin <robm@mad.scientist.com>]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 06:15:08AM -0400, Harry Henry Gebel wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 04:15:09PM +1000, Mark wrote:
> 
> > I can't seem to figure out what the build-depends are.  I tried doing
> > "apt-cache show hotplug", but it can't find it because I only have deb-src
> > pointing to testing.  (The rest is pointing to stable and Adrian Bunk's
> > stuff).
> 
> Use the command
> 
> apt-get build-dep hotplug
> 
> to fulfill hotplugs's build dependencies. Sometimes this will give you an
> error that it can't find one (or more) of the packages needed to fill the
> build dependancies; if this is the case build them from source first (using
> `apt-get build-dep` and `fakeroot apt-get -b source`).
> 

Erm ... apt-get build-dep isn't supported by the apt in potato (0.3.19).

Rob

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