installing gnome development packages

[Peter Garrett]

On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 01:32:04 +0200
Marco <marco.mandl at gmx.at> wrote:

> Peter Garrett wrote:
> 
> >  $ apt-cache policy mail-notification
> > mail-notification:
> >   Installed: (none)
> >   Candidate: 2.0.dfsg.1-2ubuntu1
> >   Version table:
> >      2.0.dfsg.1-2ubuntu1 0
> >         500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/universe Packages
> > 
> > $ lsb_release -a
> > No LSB modules are available.
> > Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> > Description:    Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS
> > Release:        6.06
> > Codename:       dapper
> > 
> > 
> > I think you need to enable universe in your /etc/apt/sources.list and
> > update :-)
> 
> I have the universe repos enabled. And I could install mail-notify, but not
> build-dep.
> 
> Is it possible that you get the source from another repository?

I don't understand, sorry...

$ sudo apt-get source mail-notification
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Need to get 888kB of source archives.
Get:1 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/universe mail-notification
2.0.dfsg.1-2ubuntu2 (dsc) [818B] Get:2 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com
dapper/universe mail-notification 2.0.dfsg.1-2ubuntu2 (tar) [879kB] Get:3
http://au.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/universe mail-notification
2.0.dfsg.1-2ubuntu2 (diff) [8507B] Fetched 888kB in 1s (644kB/s)

[snip]

I just use the au.archive.ubuntu.com repositories....

If you want a more recent source tarball I guess you download it ? The
apt-get build-dep step is still useful in either case. Of course, apt-get
build-dep installs binaries of the dependencies ( -dev packages) , not
source code - did you want source for all the deps too?

Peter