Re: possible to "apt-get -b source everything"

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

Rogelio Bastardo <scubacuda@gmail.com> writes:

> Apologies if this is not the best place to ask this question, but if
> I've apt-get'd some packages and then later want to recompile those
> from source (using something like apt-get -b source packagename), is
> that possible?

Yes.  You may need to call apt-get build-dep packagename first.

> And what if I want to do that for everything that I've already
> downloaded?  That is, all of my packages are installed the "normal
> way" (apt-get install package), and I'd like to, if possible, mass
> install everything from source.

Have a look at the "srcinst" package, it does exactly that.

Sven