Re: Strange error message installing master from git sources

[Thomas Morley]

2015-08-29 17:42 GMT+02:00 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
> 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


Success, and now
sudo apt-get install tex-gyre
worked as well.

Thanks,
  Harm