Re: Strange error message installing master from git sources

[David Kastrup]

Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:

> 2015-08-29 5:30 GMT+02:00 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
>> Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Being on LilyDev3 ("Debian GNU/Linux 7 (wheezy)")
>>>
>>> I nuked my build, and started from scratch and I knew texgyre was
>>> _not_ installed.
>>>
>>> Trying Dan's advice to get texgyre
>>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2015-08/msg00132.html
>>> didn't succeed.
>>>
>>> "
>>> 1. Edit /etc/apt/sources.list to refer to ftp.ca.debian.org instead of
>>> ftp3.nrc.ca, which was incommunicado.
>>> 2. sudo apt-get install tex-gyre
>>> [...]
>>> "
>>>
>>> Step 2 always failed regardless what I tried for step 1
>>
>> There is the middle step missing:
>>
>> 1.5. sudo apt-get install update
>>
>> --
>> David Kastrup
>
> address@hidden ~$ sudo apt-get install update
> [sudo] password for harm:
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Unable to locate package update
>
>
> hmmm...

Man.  Let me try again.

1.5. sudo apt-get update

Whenever I try correcting somebody...

-- 
David Kastrup