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Hi All, How do I get the source code for a specific piece of software gotten from synaptic? I'm trying to find the source to openoffice.org-l10n-te-in I googled it and ...
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    Hi All,

    How do I get the source code for a specific piece of software gotten from synaptic? I'm trying to find the source to

    openoffice.org-l10n-te-in

    I googled it and on the debian page it's having me download the entire openoffice source, I am trying to look at just the package above because there are some bugs and I've offered to take a look to see what I can do to fix them (in launchpad I offered). Thanks all
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    Too tough for this Knuckle Dragging Linux Biker to find. I gotta go so maybe someone else will pick up the torch/

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    Quote Originally Posted by rokytnji View Post
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    Me to jmadero. My fingers are bleeding for Googling this I found lots of places where you can get it in a .deb package but nothing in source.
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    If you have the source repos enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list, ie, the deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid main restricted line, or something like it, you can fetch the source code with apt.

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    apt-get source <package-name>

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    Thanks everyone for your replies.

    I tried the repo way....it finds the package but downloads 430 megs (I'm assuming it's downloading the entire open office source package). I don't get why it'd do that...the package is only a few megs....digging through 430 megs of source code for this particular thing might be impossible for me
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    I think it's because all the language packs are built from one source package.

    The source package is just called openoffice.org-l10n.

    Here it is. Ubuntu -- Details of source package openoffice.org-l10n in intrepid

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