Source packages

From: Michael Satterwhite (michael_at_weblore.com)
Date: 03/30/04

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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:26:29 -0600

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    I was wanting to look at the source to kde-core and tried to install it using
    apt. I went to the apt documentation at debian.org for the "how-to".
    Unfortunately, it's not the results I expected - and I don't see anything in
    the doc explaining what happened - although I could be looking in the wrong
    place (the apt documentation under "Working with source packages).

    (1) I enter the command "apt-get source kde-core"
         My sources.list has the line:
            deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main
         I'm running sarge

    I'm not getting the files indicated by the documentation. There is no
    .orig.tar.gz or a .diff.gz file. I do see some meta files, but these aren't
    mentioned in the .apt documentation

    (2) I tried making sure that I had the required files as specified in the
    documentation by entering the command

            apt-get build-dep kde-core

    This fails with the message "Your kernel is configured with devfs, but devfs
    is not mounted anywhere. This means noflushd cannot work".

    I searched for this as well, but couldn't find what I'm missing. Can anyone
    let me in on what I'm missing?

    tia
    - ---Michael

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