[Bug 892591] Re: apt-get source <package> requires root

[Julian Taylor]

have you changed the permissions of the sources.list to not be user readable?
ls -lR /etc/apt/sources.list*
should show -rw-r--r-- permissions

you can change it with chmod o+r file

** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  apt-get source <package> requires root

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I upgraded to 11.10 from 11.04. 
  Some time later I noticed that apt-get source seems to reuire root privelages to work

  NB- There are (enabled) deb-src's in the sources list

  example:

  [FAIL]
  jason at adrastea:~/source$ apt-get source photoprint
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list

  
  [WORKS]
  jason at adrastea:~/source$ sudo apt-get source photoprint
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  Need to get 2,456 kB of source archives.
  Get:1 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/universe photoprint 0.4.1-3 (dsc) [1,202 B]
  Get:2 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/universe photoprint 0.4.1-3 (tar) [1,936 kB]
  Get:3 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/universe photoprint 0.4.1-3 (

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