Packages in multiverse

[Erik Bågfors]

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:17:24 -0800, Vram <lamsokvr at xprt.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 17:02 +0100, Erik Bågfors wrote:
> > The simplest/best way to install things from debian in my opinion is
> > to add only a deb-src entry to the debian archive, then du "apt-get
> > build-dep <package>" to install everything required to build the
> > package then "apt-get -b source <package>" to download the source and
> > build it. The do dpkg -i on the package that just got built.  That
> > works great for me.
> >
> > /Erik
> >
> 
> 
> I am confused.
> 
> Are you talking about the soruces.list??

Yes
 
> Can you give an example of the entry???

deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ warty universe

But exchange it to a debian archive if that's what you are looking for.

/Erik