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this is my first post on this SX Forum.

After doing some searching myself (and failing), I wanted to ask why the command sudo apt-get build-dep emacs24 fail on a Pi running Raspbian Jessie?

The output I receive is the following error: E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list

What I am wondering then is:

  1. Why doesn't Raspbian's deb and deb-src not have emacs24's dependencies upstream from Debian?

  2. Is there another way to enable the command for emacs24? If not, how can I find all the dependencies needed for building emacs without X Windows (aka GUI) support?

    Thanks!

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My system config is

Linux raspberrypi 4.4.13+ #894 Mon Jun 13 12:43:26 BST 2016 armv6l GNU/Linux

Please follow the below steps and it should get things ready for you.

1. sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list
2. Un comment the line 
   deb-src http://archive.raspbian.org/raspbian/ jessie main contrib non-free rpi

Now the file will look like 

deb http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ jessie main contrib non-free rpi
# Uncomment line below then 'apt-get update' to enable 'apt-get source' 
deb-src http://archive.raspbian.org/raspbian/ jessie main contrib non-free rpi

Perform a sudo apt-get update

Now your command sudo apt-get build-dep emacs24 should work. Its just enabling the builds from deb-src doing the trick.

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    I wish all Linux distributions had source repositories configured by default. I am not sure if there is a huge downside if they did. The ability to quickly download and read the exact source (including any distro patches) of a package that is present on my system is immensely useful.
    – sigjuice
    Oct 25, 2016 at 5:45
  • Can confirm it also works for Raspbian Stretch
    – Dante
    Sep 21, 2018 at 17:34

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