Hi, On 2020-09-02 2:16 p.m., Wes Rishel wrote: > Thanks. > > re: apt-get build-dep libsane > > Ralph, I must be doing something wrong: > > > $ sudo apt-get build-dep libsane > Reading package lists... Done > E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list > $ > > I have also tried libsane1. Reading various pages on the error message > it looks like apt-get is not finding a repository for libsane. Is that > correct? I see where I might uncomment an entry > in /etc/apt/sources.list but I'm unsure what entry to change. There is > nothing specific to sane in that file. > > I don't remember which repo that you said that you were using.
If you have a "Software Sources" app in your menu under Administration (if you're using a graphical environment) or something similar, start that and enable "Source code repositories" or whatever seems similar. Alternatively, you might be looking for some commented out entry in a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d or /etc/apt/sources.list containing "deb-src". Uncomment that and do: sudo apt-get update How you might do this really depends on the distro setup. Then you should be able to run the build-dep. Cheers, Ralph
