apt-src for you source-builders

Oliver Grawert hostmaster at grawert.net
Sun Oct 24 14:06:32 UTC 2004


hi,
Am Sonntag, den 24.10.2004, 09:46 -0400 schrieb David M. Carney:
> 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!
sounds like a good start for a wiki page.

ciao
	oli
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