How to "put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list"?

terminal apt pidgin

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Uncomment the deb-src lines in /etc/apt/sources.list:

sudo sed -i 's/# deb-src/deb-src/' /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt update

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DaDi

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Updated on September 18, 2022

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DaDi over 1 year

machine: Toshiba MK1646GSX, intel atom [email protected], 2048Mb. 32bit.

OS: LINUX LITE 3.8

i was trying to install the PIDGIN dependencies:

 ~> sudo apt-get build-dep pidgin

and then i got this instead of installing the build-dep:

Reading package lists... Done
E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your     sources.list

so i searched and i found sources say that i should rm -rf the sources.list, and then apt-get update and the list will create itself. the results were not good and like what i expected, the list didn't create itself. after that i made a new list with the same content, i tried to make sure about every line and does it own deb-src. all lines are correct. but the Error still exits when i try to install the build-dep. what to do?

sources.list copied from the justpaste link:

###### Ubuntu Main Repos
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial main restricted universe multiverse


###### Ubuntu Update Repos
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-proposed main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-proposed main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports main restricted universe multiverse


###### Ubuntu Partner Repos
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ xenial partner
# deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ xenial partner

Freddy over 4 years

Have you tried running sudo apt-get update before sudo apt-get build-dep pidgin?
schrodingerscatcuriosity over 4 years

How does your sources.list look like?
DaDi over 4 years

@Freddy yes i did, i said that already in the text.
DaDi over 4 years

@guillermochamorro justpaste.it/33tq1
schrodingerscatcuriosity over 4 years

Uncomment # deb-src...
Alessio over 4 years

please don't link to external sites for short text fragments. paste them into your question (and format as code). i've fixed that for you this time.

Martian2020 over 2 years

IMO apt update requirement should be included in the error message, not everybody knows internals that well to see it is necessary after sources file editing.