On 8/21/17, Dejan Jocic <[email protected]> wrote: > On 20-08-17, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 8:08 PM, Kynn Jones <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Example: >> > >> > % sudo apt-get build-dep emacs25 >> > Reading package lists... Done >> > E: Unable to find a source package for emacs25 >> > >> > I have run `apt-get update` before running the command above, and my >> > `/etc/apt/sources.list` file contains the following >> > >> > deb http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch main contrib non-free >> > deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch main contrib non-free >> > >> > deb http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-updates main contrib >> > non-free >> > deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-updates main contrib >> > non-free >> > >> > deb http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib >> > non-free >> > deb-src http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib >> > non-free >> > >> > What am I doing wrong? >> >> Your apt-get build-dep command is fine. This could be be a problem >> with the particular mirror you are using. Try using >> http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ instead of >> http://deb.debian.org/debian and see if that works. >> > > Actually, httpredir.debian.org is unmaintained and all it does is to > redirect to deb.debian.org. What he does miss is / after debian. So it > looks like this: > > deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free > deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free > > deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free > deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free
I came in here to ask about the "apt-get update", too. I was also wondering about the "httpredir" one. There was some publicity about it becoming "a thing" to do a long time ago. Then I noticed it disappeared out of my new installations. And then I read something about it going by the wayside. :) I tried this command earlier. It failed with the same error as Kynn. While I was dissecting to see if I could catch some tiny error in Kynn's sources.list, I smacked myself in the head about mine. Of course mine wouldn't work. My sources.list was only one line. It didn't have the deb-src line. Always wondered what that was for, now I know. I had just been thinking about changing that yesterday so I did today. My lines don't have slashes at the end. I didn't do that. Debootstrap sets it up with no trailing slash. In fact I just got to verify for 100% because I ran the first step in debootstrap'ing Sid again a couple hours ago. I just ran the "apt-get build-dep emacs25" command again.. It's working as expected now... so I'm back to leaning heavy on did you "apt-get update"? :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *
