Re: apt-get source?

[Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 07:18:14PM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> 
> I did the apt-get source and it dropped the source in my current directory.
> When I go to configure it doesn't build, missing "/root/qt/debian/objprelink"
> and it doesn't get auto-configured to match the paths etc of my pre-packaged
> version.

apt-get source -b <package> would download the source and build a debian
package for you which you can install with dpkg -i <package name>

Regards.

Johann
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