How can I run 'apt-get build-dep vlc'

[yinglcs2]

Hi,

I am trying to run 'apt-get build-dep vlc', but i get the following error:

$ sudo apt-get build-dep vlc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to find a source package for vlc

Can you please help me to resolve them?

Thank you.

[yinglcs2]

What does it mean by:

$ sudo apt-get build-dep vlc;
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list

[Rocket2DMn]

Do you have the universe repository enabled? In Synaptic, go to Settings->Repositories and make sure the universe repository is enabled.
OR
you can run
gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list and removing the # in front of the lines for universe. Then run

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get build-dep vlc

[walkerk]

I'm sure it did. We covered this in another thread. Was another thread necessary?