On Sunday 07 Oct 2001 9:06 pm, Hereward Cooper wrote: > I accidently deleted the source directory of my package, but have a > copy of the .deb it generated. When I run dpkg-source -x > <package-name> it gives me a couple of errors that i know about (as I > was play around with it), and so stops. Is there anyway I can force > extract the source from the deb, regardless of the errors? > > Thanks, > > Hereward
Umm no. a .deb is the binary archive. It contains the binaries of the package. The source package contains the source. There is no source in the .deb. Sorry, -- Stephen Stafford finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get gpg public key -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

