source code of open source softwares

[sachinmcajnu]

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which is the perfect link from where i can download the source codes
of softwares and modify them

[reed9]

Depends on the software. There is no central location for all opensource software in existence. Many projects host their software at sourceforge or on Google Code.

[nguill00]

which is the perfect link from where i can download the source codes
of softwares and modify them

If your connected to the internet with ubuntu you can type in terminal:

sudo apt-get sources [your package file]

Don't add the brackets...of course

Ex:

sudo apt-get source gedit

Hope that helps!

*edited 1:03am, 02-03-2011

[scm]

If your connected to the internet with ubuntu you can type in terminal:

Sudo apt-get sources [your package file]

Don't add the brackets...of course

Ex:

Sudo apt-get source gedit

Of course, that presupposes you're using a distribution that supports apt-get ....
Oh, and "sudo" doesn't start with a capital 's'.

[sgosnell]

You should be able to get the source code at the same place you got the package. If it comes as a tarball, .tar.bz or equivalent, that is the source code. If it was downloaded as a package, the source code will normally be available as a separate file or files on the same site.

[nguill00]

Yup yup! That's why I wrote "If your connected to the internet with ubuntu..."

Ubuntu happens to be my favorite distro...and I can be a bit arrogant about it sometimes...

My droid automatically capitalizes the first letter of of the first word at the beginning of a sentance...it can be some what inconvenient at times...no matter...with your post they will see that sudo should be lower case...I will fix that error in the future...thanks!

[fatra2]

Hi there,

which is the perfect link from where i can download the source codes
of softwares and modify them

From what the others answered, you are still not any further than you were before. No one gave you any place to look for the source code.

As mentioned above, there is no one magical place where all the source code are stashed. But the sourceforge.net website is a very good place to start your search.

Cheers

[nguill00]

If your using ubuntu you don't have to know where the source code is... one simply has to type a simple command which finds and downloads it for you. So... we can find it in our good buddy ...terminal. sourceforge is missing files it says it has available...from my recent experience...for the most part it's a good place to download stuff...

Try:

Index of /pool

Loads of goodies...if you don't find it there simply do a google search...

[ramin.honary]

Every Linux distribution has some form of package management. Every software package tends to have a brief description and a link to the software's project page. Using your package manager, you should be able to find a link to the source code for almost any package.

Here is an example for Debian systems (like Ubuntu). Notice in red below, the "Hompage" field:

% apt-cache search skencil
inkscape - vector-based drawing program
python-uniconvertor - Universal vector graphics translator
skencil - Interactive vector drawing program for X11
sketch - 3D diagrams for TeX from scene description language
% apt-cache show skencil
Package: skencil
Priority: optional
Section: universe/graphics
Installed-Size: 4936
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 0.6.17-17
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libx11-6, libxext6, tcl8.4 (>= 8.4.16), tk8.4 (>= 8.4.16), python (<< 2.7), python (>= 2.6), python-support (>= 0.90.0), python-imaging-tk
Suggests: gsfonts-x11, python-reportlab
Filename: pool/universe/s/skencil/skencil_0.6.17-17_i386.deb
Size: 996356
MD5sum: 503e3a6a91616ffc36fa67330d478b04
SHA1: 5da0dcd9e7ca17265343a653da9a61030ba78cc1
SHA256: 0eb85cbb736b1f0a45c8bbb3a68e61d49c2348c295887aeb05a5b104b0dffb0d
Description: Interactive vector drawing program for X11
 Skencil is an interactive vector drawing program. It currently support drawing
 primitives like rectangles, ellipses, Bezier curves, bitmap (ppm, png, jpg,
 tiff etc.) and EPS images and text. All objects can be rotated, scaled and
 sheared. Primitives can have fill and line properties. A number of special
 effects like blend groups, text to Bezier and text along a path are provided.
 Skencil supports an unlimited undo history. Import of XFig, AI (up to version
 8), WMF, CMX and SVG files. Exports to EPS, AI, PDF (with reportlab) and SVG.
 .
 Skencil is written in Python with an Tkinter GUI. User scripts can be written
 in Python.
Homepage: http://www.skencil.org/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu

[dE_logics]

I don't understand why this question is in this category.

Do a Google search on distfiles.gentoo.org