Re: apt-get install (for source)

[Remco van de Meent <remco@debian.org>]

Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > I finally worked out what a great feature apt-get install is. I was
> > wondering whether anybody has thought of making an option such as -s to
> > instead download the source files for the named package.
> 
> There are a handfull of bugs about exactly that and indeed we will soon
> have the capability to do it.

And while the APT Development Team is doing a great job, you can use
`debget' in the meantime for downloading sources...


bye,
 -Remco