[plug] apt-get source - no workies

Ryan ryan at is.as.geeky.as
Wed Jul 30 23:02:12 WST 2003


It is not in the sources file for testing, don't know why.

There is a source tarball is your play hide and seek in the pool:

http://ftp.iinet.net.au/debian/debian/pool/main/n/netleds-applet/netleds-applet_0.9.1.orig.tar.gz

That should be enough to get you going.

Ryan

On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 22:50, Onno Benschop wrote:
> 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?
> 
> 
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