Hi Chris! On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 09:46:41PM -0400, Chris Murphy wrote: > I was trying to get the documentation for GNU make, so I typed `apt-cache > show make` to see if that suggested any doc packages. It says that > there is a package called make-doc, but when I tried to `apt-get install > make-doc`, it gave this: > > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Package make-doc is not available, but is referred to by another package. > This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or > is only available from another source > > E: Package 'make-doc' has no installation candidate > > Do I have to enable a separate repository to download this package, > or is it missing? Thanks! >
This package has been moved to non-free in Debian but it hasn't been moved back to main in gNewSense yet (gNS doesn't consider it nonfree). Meanwhile you can build your own package using Debian sources: $ apt-get build-dep make-doc [this will install all dependencies needed for building the package] $ dget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/m/make-doc-non-dfsg/make-doc-non-dfsg_3.81-5.dsc $ dpkg-source -x make-doc-non-dfsg_3.81-5.dsc And then in the directory containing the source: $ debuild -uc -us You should be able to install deb packages created this way without problems. If something is unclear or seems wrong, "man" will be your best friend ;-) I hope I'll be able to work on documentation while at home this weekend. Happy hacking! -- Marek Buras cyfr0n (at) sdf !dot org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list gNewSense-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
