On 16 June 2013 16:12, Bill Blough <[email protected]> wrote: > > As a followup to my previous message - > > When running > > apt-get source <package> > > It appears that <package> needs to be a binary package name, not a > source package name. This makes my earlier observation about the "deb" > entries make a little more sense to me, and leads me to believe that > this behavior is by design.
Yes. > > However, reading the apt-get man page, it's not clear to me that > "apt-get source" does not allow specifying a source package name instead > of a binary package name. Maybe something should be mentioned in the > man page in case someone else comes along that's as dense as me ;-) > You can use ‘--only-source’ to specify source package name. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
