No tick in Software Sources although enabled

Steve yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com
Fri Dec 11 16:12:47 UTC 2009


On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:05:29 -0000, Carl Friis-Hansen  
<ubuntuuser at carl-fh.com> wrote:

> Feeling a bit stupid.  I want some of the sources for one or two of the
> programs I have installed.  I therefore went to the System -->
> Administration --> Software Sources and enabled Software Sources.  The
> tick mark did not appear and the sources were still not available in
> Synaptic, so I looked at /etc/apt/sources.list which looked perfect:
>
<snip>
>
> Do I have to enable something in Synaptic in order to see the deb-src
> packages?
>
I don’t think the sources show in Synaptic, you have to obtain the with  
apt-get source packagename

-- 
Steve




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