Dne po 21. listopadu 2022 10:47:27 William Morder via tde-users napsal(a): > Not sure what caused this weirdness, but I thought it best to make a > report, just in case it actually matters. > > I was trying to find a desktop calculator that I actually like, and > among those that I downloaded was kcalc-trinity, which I've used before. > But when I downloaded my list of packages and dependencies, I kept > getting an error message: > > Err:1 http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-testing > chimaera/main amd64 kcalc-trinity amd64 4:14.1.0~s244-0debian11.0.0+12 > 404 Not Found [IP: 37.205.10.16 80] > E: Failed to fetch > http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-testing/pool/ma >in/t/tdeutils-trinity/kcalc-trinity_14.1.0%7es244-0debian11.0.0%2b12_amd6 >4.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 37.205.10.16 80] > E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try > with --fix-missing? > > After trying apt-get build-dep, and then apt-get update, which did not > improve my results, it occurred to me to try changing my sources.list > from Devuan Chimaera to Debian Bullseye; and presto! worked like a > charm. > > Some may recall an earlier discussion (when Leslie was attempting a new > Devuan installation), I posited my opinion that there is probably no > difference between these packages when it comes to third-party > repositories (such as Trinity itself). From what I can tell, third-party > developers thus far do not create special Devuan packages, and most do > not even acknowledge the existence of Devuan, so Debian packages work > just fine. > > For the Trinity repositories, I assume that the link to Chimaera > packages is just a redirect to the Debian packages. Otherwise, this > would be a reduplication of effort and server space, If this is wrong, I > expect to be corrected by somebody who knows better. However, this seems > like proof of concept, since the package was available by changing to > the Debian links. > > I do know that Debian and Devuan packages definitely should not be used > interchangeably. When Devuan was first forked, this was almost true, > except for a few systemd-dependent items, but now they have diverged > more and more. These changes do not appear to have prompted third-party > developers to create packages specifically for Devuan, but I am sure > that this will be changing. > > It could be that this package alone is missing, or that there is a > problem with the link to this server, or that redirection is failing, or > whatever. But I did try several times, with the same bad result, and > after changing the lines in my sources.list for the Trinity > repositories, everything worked like normal. > > By the way, I am using the PTB repositories now, following Slavek's > recent recommendation. > > Bill > Hi Bill, it looks like you haven't done an "apt update" in a while, because the version 14.1.0~s244 corresponds to the version from October 28th, while the current version is 14.1.0~s247 from November 18th. So you can try to do "apt update" and install the packages afterwards. Cheers -- Slávek
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