On Monday 27 February 2017 15:24:34 Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > On 02/27/2017 01:14 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 27 February 2017 11:42:53 Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > >> On 02/27/2017 09:35 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> And, I just checked, formatted the .list file entry according to > >>> the wheezy entries at http://buildbot.linuxcnc.org/ and there is > >>> not an entry in the repos to match a wheezy i386 install, which > >>> this is because yonks ago, when I installed wheezy, lcnc didn't > >>> run on 64 bit installs, so I've been running an i386 install, with > >>> whichever kernel had an actually works PAE, without which I'm a > >>> gigabyte into swap in just a few hours. The error message from > >>> apt-get update is: > >>> > >>> W: Failed to fetch http://linuxcnc.org/dists/wheezy/Release > >>> Unable to find expected entry '2.7-rtpreempt/binary-i386/Packages' > >>> in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file) > >> > >> Unfortunately the apt sources for the buildbot and for the main > >> archive at www.linuxcnc.org use slightly different URLs. > >> > >> The "2.7-rtpreempt" component you're using is for the buildbot, not > >> for www.linuxcnc.org. > >> > >> The matching component on www.linuxcnc.org is "2.7-uspace". The > >> apt source line should look like this: > >> > >> deb http://linuxcnc.org/ wheezy base 2.7-uspace > > > > And that, Seb, while not identical to what I did have, offers me the > > exact same thing that is currently installed. No 2.8-pre whatever in > > sight. Which is whats running on the other 3 real machines. > > The apt-get error message you quoted above shows that you're looking > for a component called "2.7-rtpreempt" at "http://linuxcnc.org". > > I'm guessing you have a line in your apt source that looks like this: > > deb http://linuxcnc.org/ wheezy 2.7-rtpreempt > > That's not going to work, since there is no component named > "2.7-rtpreempt" in the main linuxcnc.org package archive. > > I now think you want the not-yet-released "2.8-pre" version. This > version is not available from www.linuxcnc.org (since it's not > released yet) but it is available from the buildbot. You just have to > add an apt-source line exactly like it says on the buildbot front > page: > > deb http://buildbot.linuxcnc.org/ wheezy master-sim > Ahh, this worked, but I was looking at the buildbot's front page. Or thought I was 3 hours ago... > > It's maybe confusing that this is called "-sim" instead of "-uspace", > I > > tried (probably poorly) to clear up that confusion in the description: > > Wheezy (uspace: realtime with RT-Preempt, and simulation) > > architectures: amd64, armhf, i386
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