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


Cheers, Gene Heskett
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