Building on LMDE6 ? (Linux Mint Debian Edition)

Software darktable
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Hi,

me again …
I am currently trying to build dt branch 4.8.x with Linux Mint LMDE6 (Linux Mint debian edition).

Will git pull etc. worked and I have the repository local to start building, I seem to fail to set up the further build environment.

When trying to install build dependencies via the listed “sudo apt-get build-dep darktable” for debian. I get an error:

martin@martin-lmde:~/darktable$ sudo apt-get build-dep darktable
Reading package lists… Done
E: You must put some ‘deb-src’ URIs in your sources.list

Not sure what to do here …
Sorry for the stupid question, but as I am new with LMDE6, I am somewhat confused and any hintis welcome.

Thx, Martin

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I don’t know LMDE, but apt-get needs entries in /etc/apt/sources.list. They define repositories storing packages.

On my Ubuntu, there’s
deb https://ubuntu.ethz.ch/ubuntu/ mantic main restricted
This specifies one repository to find ‘.deb’ files.

deb-src is another possible prefix, to specify repositories storing source code. An example from Ubuntu is:
deb-src http://ubuntu.ethz.ch/ubuntu/ mantic-security restricted main multiverse universe

It seems a deb-src repo is needed by the command you issued, and you do not have any.

Further reading: SourcesList - Debian Wiki

I hope you found this useful. Unfortunately, not using LMDE, I cannot be of much help.