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From: Michael Satterwhite (michael_at_weblore.com)
Date: 03/31/04

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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 12:57:55 -0600

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    I posted this yesterday, but I think it got lost in the traffic by my being
    slow to respond to a question.

    I was wanting to look at the source to kde-core and tried to install it using
    apt (I'm running sarge) 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 not getting the files indicated by the documentation. There is no
    .orig.tar.gz or a .diff.gz file. I do see the following:

    meta-kde-3.1.2 (directory), meta-kde-3.1.2.tar.gz, meta-kde-3.1.2.dsc

    but these aren't mentioned in the apt documentation. Regardless, they don't
    have the kde source in them either.

    (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 messages
            Setting up noflushd (2.7.2-1) ...
            Starting No Flush Daemon: Error: Your kernel is configured with devfs, but
               devfs is not
            mounted anywhere. This means noflushd cannot work.
            Please consult the noflushd README for details
            invoke-rc.d: initscript noflushd, action "start" failed.
            dpkg: error processing noflushd (--configure):
             subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
            Errors were encountered while processing:
             noflushd
            E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

    I searched for this as well, but couldn't find what I'm missing. There is a
    line in the README about devfs, but I got the same result when I tried what
    it suggested. Can anyone let me in on what I'm missing?

    tia
    - ---Michael

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