how to get apt-get to install from source

[John Spencer]

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>i was looking into apt-get and found it has the option download source
code> 
>and then compile it also.
>i treid to install firestarter this way cuz firestarter was not working 
>well.
>now apt-get says
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>> E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list
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>can anyone tell me these source urls.
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Source urls are normally identical to regular deb locations.
eg.

deb-src http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary main restricted

so anything you have a deb <address> for you should be able to add a
deb-src <address> for.