Re: Handling apt-get, apt-cdrom, sources.list, cdroms.list

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 11:30:37AM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote:

>> I'm newbie with Debian, so please bear with my inexperience.




Kevin Mark <kmark+debian-user@pipeline.com> writes:

> Hi Rodolfo,
> welcome to Debian!



Thanks indeed, I'm glad to join the Debian users community.



Rodolfo:

>> 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:
>> 
>> [snip]
>>
>> , then to handle the 'apt-cdrom' tool; but I really
>> don't know how.


Kevin:

> Apt-cdrom 'registers' in the /etc/apt/sources.list you CD's. You have
> registerd binary packages cds. You can get the MATCHING source packages
> cd or add entries to the sarge repo for both deb and deb-src BUT this
> will mean you will need to update your sarge to the latest point release
> (apt-get update).



Could you suggest *how* to get the MATCHING source packages cd?

Thanks,
Rodolfo