How to find source code for a particular package?

[Chris Green]

On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 07:07:20PM +0000, Avi Greenbury wrote:
> Chris Green wrote:
> 
> > If I have a package installed (as in a name in the package column in
> > synaptic) how do I find (and download) the corresponding source code?
> 
> Assuming you have the relevant deb-src repository enabled for the repo
> the package itself came in (you do by default for the ubuntu repos),
> you can do
> 
> apt-get source <packagename>
> 
> It will then extract the source into a directory in your current
> working directory.
> 
Thank you, exactly what I wanted to know, the source I wanted is now
extracted and being looked at!  :-)

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Chris Green