From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bob Proulx Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Build emacs on debian Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 18:22:06 -0600 Message-ID: <20140407002206.GA25221@hysteria.proulx.com> References: <87sipq2ny0.fsf@newsguy.com> <20140406211145.GA7796@hysteria.proulx.com> <87fvlq2m4s.fsf@newsguy.com> <87zjjy81cw.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1396830158 11155 80.91.229.3 (7 Apr 2014 00:22:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 00:22:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Harry Putnam Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 07 02:22:32 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WWxKZ-0007Bw-Qh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2014 02:22:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59718 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WWxKZ-0003YY-8p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2014 20:22:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34117) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WWxKJ-0003XX-3H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2014 20:22:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WWxKB-0000mZ-UY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2014 20:22:15 -0400 Original-Received: from joseki.proulx.com ([216.17.153.58]:44410) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WWxKB-0000lE-K2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2014 20:22:07 -0400 Original-Received: from hysteria.proulx.com (hysteria.proulx.com [192.168.230.119]) by joseki.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 881F021233; Sun, 6 Apr 2014 18:22:06 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: by hysteria.proulx.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4C0DB2DC9A; Sun, 6 Apr 2014 18:22:06 -0600 (MDT) Mail-Followup-To: Harry Putnam , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87zjjy81cw.fsf@newsguy.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 216.17.153.58 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:97024 Archived-At: Harry Putnam wrote: > Oddly that ended poorly.... not sure why: > sudo apt-get build-dep emacs24 > > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list You don't have any source URLs in your sources.list file? How can you live that way? :-) > I'm pretty sure I don't need source pkgs to build emacs so must be > something else going on. > > cat source.list: > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free > deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free Duplicate those and convert the deb to deb-src. deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free Then run apt-get update. And then build-dep again. Bob