Re: Handling apt-get, apt-cdrom, sources.list, cdroms.list
Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>Hi.
>
>I'm newbie with Debian, so please bear with my inexperience.
>In my Sarge stable, when I do:
>
> # apt-get build-dep emacs21
>
>I get the following output:
>
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list
>
>. The debian-emacsen listers suggested me to properly edit the file
>'/etc/apt/sources.list', which is the following:
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>#deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main
>
>deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0a _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-2 (20050607)\]/ unstable contrib main
>deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0a _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20050607)\]/ unstable contrib main
>
>
># deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
>, then to handle the 'apt-cdrom' tool; but I really
>don't know how. Here's my '/var/lib/apt/cdroms.list':
>
>
>
>-------------------------------------------------------
>CD::ca516dca38db4d7175e5e976215935ff-2 "Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0a _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20050607)";
>CD::ca516dca38db4d7175e5e976215935ff-2::Label "Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0a _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20050607)";
>CD::292bfddab46e89a674ff592cc76ff195-2 "Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0a _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-2 (20050607)";
>CD::292bfddab46e89a674ff592cc76ff195-2::Label "Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0a _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-2 (20050607)";
>-------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
>. Please could you provide some basic help to such a basic problem?
>Thanks in advance,
>Rodolfo
>
>
>
>
In a nutshell, you need to be able to get the *source code*, not just
the compiled binaries in order to make use of build-dep.
You have two *binary* CD's, do you have a source CD? You need to get
them. (And the versions must be the same, afaik)
Disclaimer: I have not actually done this.
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