What apt incantations do I need to use to download the source packages for all the installed packages into a directory? (The use case is GPL compliance when giving an installed Ubuntu system to another person along with a computer.)
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possible duplicate askubuntu.com/questions/28372/…– TachyonsApr 5, 2012 at 13:49
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2You do not need to bother download all the source code for the person to be GPL compliant. It is enough that the code are publicly available.– Fish MonitorApr 5, 2012 at 15:36
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fossilet, [citation-needed] with references to both GPLv3 text and GPLv2 text.– hsivonenApr 20, 2012 at 11:29
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Not a duplicate of the other question, since the other question is about getting the source of a single package.– hsivonenApr 20, 2012 at 11:30
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Try this..
Create a directory where you want the source for all installed packages to be downloaded, and enter it.
mkdir source; cd source
Create a file named getsource.sh
getsource.sh
#!/bin/bash
dpkg --get-selections | while read line
do
package=`echo $line | awk '{print $1}'`
mkdir $package
cd $package
apt-get -q source $package
cd ..
done
Make it executable.
chmod a+x getsource.sh
Execute it..
./getsource.sh
And go grab a cup of coffee :)
answered Apr 5, 2012 at 13:52
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For start thanks for your answer... But I tried to use it on a Debian 9 system and had some problems. Here is the answer that worked for me (unix.stackexchange.com/a/423280/237337).– koleygrFeb 10, 2018 at 21:05
An alternative for you might be to just hand out the source CDs:
answered Apr 5, 2012 at 14:51
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Thanks. I was browsing from releases.ubuntu.com and failed to locate those images. This option, of course, isn't quite correct if you've run the system update after the initial installation.– hsivonenApr 20, 2012 at 11:32
On Ubuntu refer to command:
apt-get source package-name
it is recommended that you only use apt-get source as a regular user, because then you can edit files in the source package without needing root privileges.
There's a couple issues in the accepted answer and with the linked better answer in Unix Stack Exchange. Here's an improved and tested script with comments:
#!/bin/bash
# ${Source} doesn't always show the source package name, ${source:Package} does.
# Multiple packages can have the same source, sort -u eliminates duplicates.
dpkg-query -f '${source:Package}\n' -W | sort -u | while read p; do
mkdir -p $p
pushd $p
# -qq very quiet, pushd provides cleaner progress.
# -d download compressed sources only, do not extract.
apt-get -qq -d source $p
popd
done
Run as non-root user (_apt works). Note any errors as they may indicate packages with no sources available. You may want to run the script with 2>err.log to parse these manually later.
