thanx a lot this solved my problem completely. On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Neeraj Semwal <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > On Jun 27, 2:54 pm, Abhineet Jayaraj <[email protected]> wrote: > > On looking for the ans of my question. I got this: > > "*sudo apt-get source <package_name>*" > > From this i can get the source of almost all packages. But from where can > i > > get the source of packages that handle the basic functions of ubuntu like > > commands in shell, gui of ubuntu, network configuration and many more. > Also > > from where can i get the list of applications used in ububtu (i.e. from > > samllest to biggest applications used in it). Everything used to build > > ubuntu. > > > > > > > > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Abhi <[email protected]> wrote: > > > So how a Linux OS is developed when the source of all the softwares to > > > included into it are gathered a single place? > > > Ubuntu is like a tree and it should have a root too, this tree has its > > > softwares like its branches. > > > So I want to know what this root and tree are? > > > > > On Jun 26, 9:56 pm, Nilesh Govindarajan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 06/26/2010 10:19 PM, Abhi wrote: > > > > > > > I want to learn Linux Programming. So before that I would like to > know > > > > > how the source code of the apps used in ubuntu and that of the OS > > > > > itself looks like. > > > > > So from where can I get the source code from? What I think is that > > > > > some command in terminal of installed ubuntu will be able to do my > > > > > job. But I m not clear about it. > > > > > In short I want the source code of Ubuntu. > > > > > > Ubuntu is a distribution that is it is made of small pieces joined > > > > together. You WILL NOT get the whole source code in all; this is > > > > applicable to any Linux OS. > > > > > > See the sites of individual applications, for example, coreutils, it > > > > gives you the standard tools like ls, etc. > > > > > > -- > > > > Regards, > > > > Nilesh Govindarajan > > > > Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr > > > > Twitter:http://twitter.com/nileshgr > > > > Website:http://www.itech7.com > > > > Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting:http://j.mp/arHk5e > > > > > -- > > > l...@iitd -http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm > > > > -- > > Abhineet Jayaraj > > > > There is an official source code repository for Ubuntu maintained at: > www.archive.ubuntu.com > it provides all the binaries as well as the source code for all the > packages and all are applicable under GPL > > To download the source code of any package you want, just follow the > following steps > > start the terminal and type > sudo apt-get build-dep package > where package is the package you want, this is to build the desired > package > > then download the source code of the package you've just built by > typing: > sudo apt-get source package > > For example: If you want the source code of the gedit text editor, > then type: > > sudo apt-get build-dep gedit > sudo apt-get source gedit > > Here it is important to note that you should run the above commands in > the directory where you want the source code to be downloaded > like if you want the source code of gedit in "/home/user_name/ > desired_folder" then cd to that directory and then run these commands > > As i said, there is an official Ubuntu source code repository at > www.archive.ubuntu.com, you can go through the list there and find the > package you want and download it by just clicking it. > > Hope this solves your problem to some extent :) > > -- > l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm > -- Abhineet Jayaraj -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
