From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Build emacs on debian
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2014 21:14:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87txa6ueiv.fsf@newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 877g72nff0.fsf@desiato.home.uhoreg.ca
hubert <hubert@uhoreg.ca> writes:
> On Sun, 06 Apr 2014 19:49:51 -0400, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> said:
>
>> 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
>
>> I'm pretty sure I don't need source pkgs to build emacs so must be
>> something else going on.
>
> It needs the deb-src urls so that it can fetch the source package
> description to install the build dependencies. If you don't want to add
> the deb-src urls, then you can download the dsc file manually. Just go
> to https://packages.debian.org/sid/emacs24, and click on the .dsc file
> listed on the right-hand side. Then look at the Build-Depends line.
> That's a list of all the packages that are needed to build.
Ahh yes, nice. Thanks for the great input.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-07 1:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-06 20:38 Build emacs on debian Harry Putnam
2014-04-06 21:04 ` Sharon Kimble
2014-04-06 23:39 ` Harry Putnam
2014-04-06 21:11 ` Bob Proulx
2014-04-06 21:17 ` Harry Putnam
2014-04-06 23:49 ` Harry Putnam
2014-04-07 0:22 ` Bob Proulx
2014-04-07 0:37 ` hubert
2014-04-07 1:14 ` Harry Putnam [this message]
2014-04-07 1:28 ` Harry Putnam
2014-04-07 1:52 ` hubert
2014-04-07 15:41 ` Bob Proulx
2014-04-07 7:48 ` Sharon Kimble
2014-04-06 21:24 ` Glyn Millington
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