[Coco] Open Letter to those who will be attending the The 24thAnnual "Last Chicago CoCoFEST April 25-26, 2015

[Tormod Volden]

On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 2:18 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> If you are using Debian, you can pick lwtools packages from my PPA at
>> https://launchpad.net/~tormodvolden/+archive/ubuntu/m6809 and you are
>> done. One thing less to struggle with.
>>
> The instructions to add the ppa, when performed, prevent the
> package-manager from running.
>

Some of the instructions on that page are autogenerated and add to the
confusion. The key is, as I have tried to make clear on that page,
that you can perfectly install the "lucid" packages even if you have
another or newer version of Ubuntu or Debian.

> Can you just paste that line in /etc/sources.list into the email?
>
> However, when I had excised the line it added the first time, and
> repeated the operation, it worked and synaptic is running. And although
> it is checked as active according to synaptic, and the package list has
> been refreshed, no package named lwtools is available.
>
> Here is the trace when that command was exec'd the 2nd time;
> gene at coyote:/opt/nitros9$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tormodvolden/m6809
> You are about to add the following PPA to your system:
>  Note: Packages are only built on Lucid, but will work fine in any newer
> release as well. See "Technical details" below for how to configure your
> software sources.

add-apt-repository it at least handy for adding the gpg keys. But the
sources.list entry it generates will have your distro name and not
"lucid".

> Found the added ppa, in sources.list.d, and it contains:
> deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/tormodvolden/m6809/ubuntu wheezy main
> deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/tormodvolden/m6809/ubuntu wheezy main
>

Almost there, just replace "wheezy" by "lucid" and everything should work.

Alternatively one can also just pick the .debs from that page and
install manually one by one.

Tormod