If you want to test the latest bleeding-edge source code or to otherwise help aptitude development, you can download unreleased aptitude source code using Subversion. Install Subversion (available from http://subversion.tigris.org) and execute the command svn checkout svn://svn.debian.org/aptitude/trunk/aptitude to retrieve the most recent source code. Once the source code is available on your computer, you can cd into it and type svn update to update it with any changes made to the central repository.
To build aptitude from the Subversion repository, you must
have the programs autoconf
and
automake
installed. Type
./autogen.sh to generate the files needed
to compile aptitude, then execute make
and make install.
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The aptitude Subversion repository is an active development tree; it will change as bugs are fixed and features are added, and there is absolutely no guarantee that it will even compile, let alone run properly! Bug reports are welcome, but be aware that you use development code entirely at your own risk![1] |
[1] Of course, all free software is used at your own risk, but the risk involved in using an active development tree is much higher.