Synaptic: source repositores are marked, but i do not find this source

dedec0 · 01-01-2021, 02:13 PM

Hello,

I use synaptic to install many things used in my Debian. Mostly, no problems, I use it since several years ago. I have the game cgoban installed, and I want to play with its source. But it does not appear in the search results. Why?

My repositories settings are:

https://images2.imgbox.com/17/63/2YUUojSk_o.png

Please visit the service site which hosts the image for me, in the page for this image:

https://imgbox.com/2YUUojSk

The "-src" ones are marked, but I do not see (at least) the source code for cgoban in the search results. What is the problem?

Eventual question: this computer has no CD/DVD thing, and never had, since I own it. Can I remove those 2 "cdrom:" URI safely from the repository list?

teckk · 01-02-2021, 07:02 AM

Found this
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/cgoban
https://tracker.debian.org/news/1165...ed-to-testing/
https://tracker.debian.org/news/1163...into-unstable/

dedec0 · 01-02-2021, 07:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by teckk

Found this
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/cgoban
https://tracker.debian.org/news/1165...ed-to-testing/
https://tracker.debian.org/news/1163...into-unstable/

How did you find?

So, the version installed here has a bug in the configure.in script to cross compile it. Fine, but i want that source. That bug is unimportant for me. Can i download the source with synaptic now, or not? If not, what is the procedure to follow? I prefer to find the source as compiled for Debian, which i installed, instead of the upstream source, which may differ in some important details, sometimes.

teckk · 01-02-2021, 07:52 AM

Quote:

Fine, but i want that source.

Click on the source link on that page.
https://packages.debian.org/search?s...eywords=cgoban

dedec0 · 01-02-2021, 08:17 AM

Not possible with synaptic?

dedec0 · 01-02-2021, 08:22 AM

Please, teckk, just giving raw answers like this, you do not help me learning what is wrong here, and how to fix it.

Guttorm · 01-02-2021, 08:50 AM

Hi

I never downloaded source with Synaptic, is it possible? Try this command:

Code:

apt source cgoban

Does it work or give any error messages?

And yes, you can remove those cdrom entries.

dedec0 · 01-02-2021, 10:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Guttorm

Hi

I never downloaded source with Synaptic, is it possible?

Well, the source "things" are there. Why would they be, if not for eventually downloading sources? And I have a vague memory of seeing source packages also being shown in its results. But I am not sure where this happened. My linux computer life is most the first Ubuntu, a few of its successors, and then Debian, and almost always using Gnome or Gnome based window managers (Mate Desktop, actually, since Gnome 3 was created).

Quote:

Try this command:

Code:

apt source cgoban

Does it work or give any error messages?

It works! And it applies the diff too! And two other things i do not understand what they are:

Code:

$  apt source cgoban
Lendo listas de pacotes... Pronto
Preciso obter 466 kB de arquivos fonte.
Obter:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch/main cgoban
 1.9.14-18 (dsc) [1.643 B]
Obter:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch/main cgoban
 1.9.14-18 (tar) [418 kB]
Obter:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch/main cgoban
 1.9.14-18 (diff) [47,0 kB]
Baixados 466 kB em 1s (400 kB/s) 
dpkg-source: info: extracting cgoban in cgoban-1.9.14
dpkg-source: info: unpacking cgoban_1.9.14.orig.tar.gz
dpkg-source: info: unpacking cgoban_1.9.14-18.debian.tar.xz
dpkg-source: info: applying changes.diff
dpkg-source: info: applying 387209.diff
dpkg-source: info: applying 827684.diff

$

I will download sources with 'apt' only, from now on. Why nobody told me this before? I played with sources many times, but without applying the diffs in the package website (i checked, and they were irrelevant for what i wanted).

I got the source, but this thread is about synaptic, it will remain unsolved, for now. Ok?

Quote:

And yes, you can remove those cdrom entries.

Thank you for all you said. (: