apt-src for you source-builders

David M. Carney carney1979 at gmail.com
Sun Oct 24 13:46:32 UTC 2004


I "discovered" a package for those who like to build and install .debs
from sources. It's apt-src.

I created an src folder in my home folder and as root  I changed
directory to that folder.

I tested it by installing one of my favorite games, lbreakout2.

The command line I used for this was:

apt-src install -i lbreakout2

What this does is it installs the (binary) packages that lbreakout
requires to biuld and run that arean't already on your system (like
apt-get build-dep <package-name>), then it downloads the sources,
builds the package from the source and installs it!

David

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