Harry Putnam writes: > Harry Putnam writes: > >> Bob Proulx writes: >> >>> Harry Putnam wrote: >>>> I'm running into errors I've hit before and recognize but do not >>>> recall which pkgs were necessary to make configure work. >>> >>> The easiest thing is to start with whatever the Debian packager >>> thought was needed for the Debian package. >>> >>> # apt-get build-dep emacs24 >>> >>> That will install the build dependencies as declared in the packaged >>> files. You might want something more or less but that is a good start. >> >> Thanks for the trusty good input sir. >> >> I think you may have given that same answer some mnths ago. Sorry to >> be a pest. This one goes in the emacs notes db. > > 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. > > 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 > But there are no sources there, here is part of my sources.list --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- deb http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free deb-src http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/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 --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- See the difference, mine has 'deb-src' and yours hasn't, and thats what it is asking for. Sharon. -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk my git repo = https://bitbucket.org/boudiccas/dots TGmeds = http://www.tgmeds.org.uk Debian testing, Fluxbox 1.3.5, emacs 24.3.1