[plug] apt-get source - no workies

Onno Benschop onno at itmaze.com.au
Wed Jul 30 22:50:35 WST 2003


On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 08:32, Ryan wrote:
> > I want to repurpose the applet to show if hosts are up or down -
> > specifically to track my wireless and satellite link - so I attempted to
> > apt-get source netleds-applet, but that doesn't work.
> 
> How so?  Some console chatter would really help.  If it downloads and
> installs and appears to work nicely, you do realise the source ends up
> in the current directory?

I wish...

apt-get source netleds-applet
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Unable to find a source package for netleds-applet

As I said - no workies...

Let me ask another obvious silly question, if my sources list works with
the deb-src line, then I should just be able to do apt-get source?

Or did I forget a step?


Onno Benschop 

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