[Github-comments] [geany/geany] What exactly are the required deps for building on Ubuntu? (#2403)

[elextr]

> No, because I had downloaded a source tarball and the README doesn't mention running autogen in that case.

Thats correct, not needed for tarballs, but since you hadn't said tarball before, its a reasonable question.

> E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list

Thats telling you what you need to do.  `apt-get` needs to know what is needed to build, and for that it needs the distribution source package, which lists what the package needs on that specific distribution and version of the distribution, then it will get what you need on _your_ system.  I'm not a Ubuntist, but its likely that you can do this from some GUI setting.

The readme is vague because there are so many systems out there that "it depends" is the answer.

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