Downloader Question

[Cody Smith]

If I'm reading this correctly, I believe he wants the source tarballs of
some packages, not the software sources (repos).

I don't know whether gui package managers have that functionality (correct
me if I'm wrong)

--c_smith

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 8:08 AM, Bill vance <faptagon at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Valorie, I'll give that a shot.
>
> Bill
>
> On 5/5/15, Valorie Zimmerman <valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Bill,
> >
> > On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Bill Vance <kbun at xpresso.seaslug.org>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Howdy;
> >>
> >> Apt-get is nice as far as it goes, but the choices
> >> are somewhat limited compared to muon, and synaptic,
> >> etc.  Is there some way to tell muon/synaptic, et al
> >> that you want the _source_ for a particular program
> >> in their listing?
> >>
> >> Bill
> >
> > Apt, apt-get, apt-cache etc. are the tools that Muon and Synaptic uses
> > behind that GUI.
> >
> > `apt-get source packagename` is the way to get the source using apt-get.
> >
> > To add the sources to Muon Package Manager (not Discover):
> >
> > Open Muon > Settings > Configure Software Sources then enter your
> > password, and tick the sources box.
> >
> > Something similar in Synaptic; it's been a long time since I installed
> > and used that, since Muon is now better.
> >
> > All the best,
> >
> > Valorie
> >
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