[Users] Compile 3.8.1 under xubuntu 12.04

[Okra Son]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:45:59 +0200
Ricardo Mones <ricardo at mones.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 05:24:43 -0400
> Okra Son <Okrason at okrason.dnsalias.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 23:13:11 +0200
> > seelenhirt <seelenhirt at gmx.net> wrote:
> > 
> >  . . . 
> > > 
> > > "sudo apt-get build-dep claws-mail" should install everything you neet
> > > to build claws.
> > > 
> > >  . . . 
> > 
> > Tried that on a Mint 13 box (Based on Ubuntu 12.04) with Mate
> > desktop (Gnome 2 fork):
> > 
> > -------------------------------------------------------
> > ~ # apt-get -Vs build-dep claws-mail
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree       
> > Reading state information... Done
> > E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list
> > ~ #
> > -------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > Which "'source' URIs" should I add?
> > 
> > By the way, never had this come up on my old Lucid box.  In fact the
> > version I'm currently running on Mint was compiled on Lucid.
> 
>   Source URIs are those starting with deb-src instead deb in
>   your /etc/apt/sources.list file. That message means you probably have no
>   such lines. Duplicate a "deb ..." lines and change deb by deb-src and
>   you should be done. Don't forget to apt-get update after changing
>   sources.list.
> 
>    . . . 

Thank you Ricardo!

That worked like a charm.

It installed over eighty debs.  I remember installing less than ten
libraries when I first compile C-M with Ubuntu Lucid.  Perhaps Mint is
libraries and utilities challenged when you first install it.

Thanks again.

-- 
Okra