Re: use yum to install SRPM files?

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Subject: Re: use yum to install SRPM files?
From: Gerald Thompson <geraldt@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 20:30:03 -0600
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Ralf Corsepius wrote:

But up2date has the option "--get-source".
apt-get source <package>
also nice:
apt-get build-deps <package>
Ralf

Thanks Ralf,

I do have apt installed so I will try your suggestion.

Gerald

References:
- use yum to install SRPM files?
  - From: Gerald Thompson
- Re: use yum to install SRPM files?
  - From: Alexander Dalloz
- Re: use yum to install SRPM files?
  - From: Ralf Corsepius