how to install source code

[Alan Pope]

On 21 March 2011 22:02, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams at gmail.com> wrote:
> I need Apache source code which Ubuntu is using so how do I go for
> installing the source itself.
> Tried some guides but all was in vain.
>

apt-get source <packagename>

e.g.:-

alan at wopr:/tmp/apache$ apt-get source apache2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Need to get 6,809 kB of source archives.
Get:1 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main apache2
2.2.17-1ubuntu1 (dsc) [1,980 B]
Get:2 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main apache2
2.2.17-1ubuntu1 (tar) [6,598 kB]
Get:3 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main apache2
2.2.17-1ubuntu1 (diff) [209 kB]
Fetched 6,809 kB in 8s (780 kB/s)
gpgv: Signature made Tue 22 Feb 2011 18:02:57 GMT using DSA key ID FA14013B
gpgv: Can't check signature: public key not found
dpkg-source: warning: failed to verify signature on
./apache2_2.2.17-1ubuntu1.dsc
dpkg-source: info: extracting apache2 in apache2-2.2.17
dpkg-source: info: unpacking apache2_2.2.17.orig.tar.gz
dpkg-source: info: applying apache2_2.2.17-1ubuntu1.diff.gz

Job done.

Al.