Re: Regarding package Installation

[Kevin Mark <kevin.mark@verizon.net>]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 06:50:29PM +0500, Zainab Rehman wrote:
> While running commands(red coloured font) to install a source package i am
> having problems (bolded text)
>  
> 
> debianabc:/home/fast# cd debian
> debianabc:/home/fast/debian# apt-get source bnfc
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list
> debianabc:/home/fast/debian# apt-get build-dep bnfc
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list
> debianabc:/home/fast/debian# cd bnfc2.2
> bash: cd: bnfc2.2: No such file or directory
> debianabc:/home/fast/debian# cd bnfc-2.2
> debianabc:/home/fast/debian/bnfc-2.2# debuild -us -uc
> bash: debuild: command not found
> debianabc:/home/fast/debian/bnfc-2.2#
> 
> 
> P.S: i am not able to connect to internet from terminal at which debian is
> installed.
> 

The error message is about your /etc/apt/sources.list.
It is missing a line that starts with deb-src.
-K
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