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

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 05 April 2015 18:21:04 Tormod Volden wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 10:53 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > My script was updated since then I believe.  Is this still wrong?
> >
> > mv nitros9 nitros9-$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M)
> > hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/nitros9/code nitros9
> > cd nitros9
> > export NITROS9DIR=$PWD
> > mkdir dsks # this step is temporarily needed
> > make dsk
> > make dskcopy
> > cd ..
> > chown -R gene:gene nitros9
> > echo
> > echo "nitros9 has been refreshed"
> >
> >> Please find my mercurial how-to's posted to this list in your
> >> Thunderbird.
> >
> > What ThunderBird? kmail exclusively since about 1998.
>
> I hope it has a search function.
>
> > So I did the hg pull;hg update. Looks like it worked but I haven't
> > tried a build since updating to debian wheezy.
> >
> > make clean dskclean works.  make fails: (even as sudo root)
>
> I have said it a hundred times :D  Do not build software using
> superuser. There is no reason for it whatsoever from the start, and if
> it would help along the slightest bit, it means your system is already
> broken. Once you have, against all common sense and repeated friendly
> advice, done it anyway, things will have gone even worse and there is
> only one way out: Wipe it all and start from scratch.
>
> Just do like everybody else and follow the instructions. You are
> making it more complicated than it needs to be and as demonstrated,
> beyond your own capabilities. And nobody can help you, because even if
> they tell you what is wrong and how to do it correctly, you will not
> listen. And no, the script above was not the one I gave you.
>
> 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.
>
> Best regards,
> Tormod
The instructions to add the ppa, when performed, prevent the 
package-manager from running.

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.


LWTOOLS: http://lwtools.projects.l-w.ca/
ToolShed: http://toolshed.sourceforge.net/
XRoar: http://www.6809.org.uk/dragon/xroar.shtml
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~tormodvolden/+archive/ubuntu/m6809
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it

Executing: 
gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring --secret-keyring /tmp/tmp.1X3mxdSBAH --trustdb-name /etc/apt//trustdb.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --primary-keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d//debian-archive-jessie-automatic.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d//debian-archive-jessie-security-automatic.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d//debian-archive-jessie-stable.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d//debian-archive-squeeze-automatic.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d//debian-archive-squeeze-stable.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d//debian-archive-wheezy-automatic.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d//debian-archive-wheezy-stable.gpg --keyserver 
hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80/ --recv 
627ABB1E29CC8356AD0800EB4B1E287796DD5C9A
gpg: requesting key 96DD5C9A from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: key 96DD5C9A: "Launchpad PPA for Tormod Volden" not changed
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:              unchanged: 1

It did the key download the first time I ran it, and obviously pulled the 
same key the 2nd time.

It is not visible to synaptic, nor to aptitude, and
sudo apt-get install lwtools says it cannot find it.
The ppa line in /etc/sources.list:

Is gone, and still gone after a 3rd execution of the add line from the 
web page, so I guess its never going to find the ppa.
Now I am confused worse.  Without that line in /etc/apt/sources.list:
sudo apt-get update (and find your output in the resultant output)
W: Failed to fetch 
http://ppa.launchpad.net/tormodvolden/m6809/ubuntu/dists/wheezy/main/source/Sources  
404  Not Found

Since I've been alternately hanging onto a 60lb electric jackhammer in 
the basement, making room for a sump pump sump and have hauled about 250 
lbs of assorted mud & broken concrete up the steps, put it on a wagon, 
hauled the wagon to the trash trailer and transfered it to go to the 
landfill tomorrow, I have to believe in something, so I believe I'll 
have my 1 allowed (diabetic etc) nightly near beer, a Miller64.

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

Looks  good to me, beer, metformin pill and din-din thirty.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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