This would be a good question to the repo-discuss mailing list, or android-platform, so that android-developers can stay focused on helping people who are developing applications with the SDK.
Do you have git installed? JBQ On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 1:58 PM, PerCentage <ja...@percentage.com> wrote: > > I am trying to download the android source onto a new ubuntu 8.10 > installation on a x86 machine. All the steps worked fine until I tried > to init the repo client. I get the following... > > ja...@james-desktop:~/mydroid$ repo init -u > git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/home/james/bin/repo", line 590, in <module> > main(sys.argv[1:]) > File "/home/james/bin/repo", line 557, in main > _Init(args) > File "/home/james/bin/repo", line 176, in _Init > _CheckGitVersion() > File "/home/james/bin/repo", line 205, in _CheckGitVersion > proc = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE) > File "/usr/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 594, in __init__ > errread, errwrite) > File "/usr/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 1153, in > _execute_child > raise child_exception > OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory > > I can't find anyone else having such an repo error. I did find an > obscure message that said the python error might be due to a missing > readline module. I tried to install lib32readline5-dev as in the > download instructions and got the following error > > ja...@james-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install lib32readline5-dev > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > E: Couldn't find package lib32readline5-dev > > Any ideas anybody? I am somewhat new to linux but have had a fair > amount of unix experience in the past. > > > > > -- Jean-Baptiste M. "JBQ" Queru Android Engineer, Google. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
