how to get apt-get to install from source

[Dennis Kaarsemaker]

On do, 2005-07-14 at 07:39 +0500, Mustafa Abbasi wrote:
> i was looking into apt-get and found it has the option download source
> code and then compile it also.

apt-get -b source $packagename

the deb source urls are the sane as the deb urls, except that they start
with deb-src. Example:

deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary main restricted universe
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Dennis K.
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