"NotReal"  writes:
> Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>>"NotReal"  writes:
>>> As suggested I ran “sudo dpkg-buildpackage”.  My first attempt failed
>>> because, as you suspected, it was missing the following dependencies
>>
>> You do not need root here. See above.
>
> I did read that in past posts, but when things are giving error messages you
> try everything might help.

That is not a sensible debugging strategy. sudo can (essentially) only
bypass permissions checks. It will not make your system find files that
do not exist or bypass compilation errors.

> It took me a while to get rid of the message about needing a URI and
> learning enough to alter /etc/apt/sources.list.d/raspi.list but I
> think "apt-get source" is now working the way it should and the
> message below is what I receive.
>
> _________
>
> pi@raspberrypi:~/temp $ apt-get source sunclock
> Reading package lists... Done
> E: Unable to find a source package for sunclock

I expect you have missing or incorrect deb-src lines. If you post your
sources.list here someone will be able to tell you.

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