On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 04:17:30PM +0100, Fritz Wettstein wrote: > How do I install a source package for example cpio? This package doesn't > show up in dselect and as far as I know the name of the source package is > the same as the binary. Do you have proper source resource entries in your /etc/apt/sources.list? They should start with 'deb-src' instead of 'deb'. If you've them in you can simply 'apt-get source cpio' and apt-get will download and unpack the source package for you. To build it again you've to use dpkg-buildpackage but that's a thing you should read about yourself.
HTH Sven -- Du kannst mit Träumen nicht diskutieren, du kannst sie träumen oder verlieren. [ But Alive - Weißt nur, was du nicht willst ]