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Re: apt-get: Why "Unable to find source package" errors?

From Kynn Jones <kynnjo@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: apt-get: Why "Unable to find source package" errors?
Date 2017-08-21 23:10 +0200
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On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 6:34 AM, Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk>
wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 08:08:07PM -0400, Kynn Jones 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  [1]http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch main contrib non-free
>>       deb-src  [2]http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch main contrib
>> non-free
>>
>>       deb  [3]http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-updates main contrib
>> non-free
>>       deb-src  [4]http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-updates main
>> contrib non-free
>>
>>       deb [5]http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib
>> non-free
>>       deb-src [6]http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main
>> contrib non-free
>>
>>   What am I doing wrong?
>>
>
> What happens if you try to get the source package directly?
>
> % apt-get source emacs25
>


I get exactly the same error.

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apt-get: Why "Unable to find source package" errors? Kynn Jones <kynnjo@gmail.com> - 2017-08-21 02:10 +0200
  Re: apt-get: Why "Unable to find source package" errors? kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> - 2017-08-21 03:00 +0200
    Re: apt-get: Why "Unable to find source package" errors? Kynn Jones <kynnjo@gmail.com> - 2017-08-21 03:20 +0200
      Re: apt-get: Why "Unable to find source package" errors? kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> - 2017-08-21 06:00 +0200
    Re: apt-get: Why "Unable to find source package" errors? Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2017-08-21 09:20 +0200
      Re: apt-get: Why "Unable to find source package" errors? Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2017-08-21 09:50 +0200
        Re: apt-get: Why "Unable to find source package" errors? Kynn Jones <kynnjo@gmail.com> - 2017-08-21 11:10 +0200
          Re: apt-get: Why "Unable to find source package" errors? Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2017-08-21 11:20 +0200
            Re: apt-get: Why "Unable to find source package" errors? Kynn Jones <kynnjo@gmail.com> - 2017-08-21 12:10 +0200
            Re: apt-get: Why "Unable to find source package" errors? Kynn Jones <kynnjo@gmail.com> - 2017-08-21 12:10 +0200
            Re: apt-get: Why "Unable to find source package" errors? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-08-21 12:20 +0200
    Re: apt-get: Why "Unable to find source package" errors? Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2017-08-21 09:30 +0200
  Re: apt-get: Why "Unable to find source package" errors? Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2017-08-21 03:40 +0200
  Re: apt-get: Why "Unable to find source package" errors? Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2017-08-21 12:40 +0200
    Re: apt-get: Why "Unable to find source package" errors? Kynn Jones <kynnjo@gmail.com> - 2017-08-21 23:10 +0200
      Re: apt-get: Why "Unable to find source package" errors? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-08-22 00:10 +0200

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