Does apt-get -b source Install the Package?

Zssfssz · 01-29-2012, 11:31 PM

Im just wondering if I did the fallowing:
sudo apt-get build-dep gnome
sudo apt-get -b source gnome
Would it in the end install gnome? I'm at plain command line right now no GUI want to build gdm with it and right now the building looks like it's going fine I just want to know if I have to install it or if it does that for me.

caravel · 01-30-2012, 03:49 AM

Read the man page for apt-get, it states that -b is for compiling "source packages after downloading them".

The next question is: Why would you want to get and build source when there are binaries already available?

Also bear in mind that "gnome" is just a few kilobytes meta package.

If you want to install gnome then you just need to run:

Code:

apt-get install gnome

(full bloat ~600MB)

Code:

apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment

(smaller ~500MB)

Code:

apt-get install gnome-core gdm3

(even smaller ~370MB)

Zssfssz · 01-30-2012, 08:58 AM

According to the online apt man pages -b resolves all dependincys (meta packages depend on the real thing) and builds them. Now why would I want to... Performance and (Mostly) show off (none of my friends know what unix is let alone Linux doesn't take much to impress them).