How do I enable the source code repositories?
You can enable source code repositories by uncommenting (removing #
's) deb-src
repositories from /etc/apt/sources.list
.
sed -i '/deb-src/s/^# //' /etc/apt/sources.list && apt update
If you want to disable source code repositories, you can comment it back
sed -i '/deb-src/s/^/# /' /etc/apt/sources.list && apt update
Launch the software center and select software sources:
In the software sources make sure "Source Code" is checked:
The default archive repositories have the source archives enabled as well as the binaries. Also, adding any PPAs with sudo add-apt-repository ppa:user/archive
should enable the source and binary archives both.
To verify, you can check in the /etc/apt/sources.list
file, and in the files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
, to ensure the deb-src
lines for each deb
archive line, are there. Also, in the Software Sources
properties dialog, you can check that the Source code
option is checked on the Ubuntu Software
tab, and that there are corresponding Source
entries for the Binaries
entries, in the list of additional sources under the Other Software
tab.