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</style></head><body><div><br>Yes, the right thing to do would be install from source.<br><br>As you noticed, those packages & instructions are for .deb based systems, and that's not Arch, it's Debian and Ubuntu.<br><br>Good to see you again, good luck!</div><div><br></div><div>On Sat, 13 Dec 2025, at 3:47 PM, Ralph Becket wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="qt-elementToProof">Hi everybody,</div><div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="qt-elementToProof"><br></div><div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="qt-elementToProof">After nearly a couple of decades using C# in industry, it looks like I'm coming back to Mercury! </div><div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="qt-elementToProof"><br></div><div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="qt-elementToProof">I'm trying to install Mercury under WSL on my home Windows box and I'm getting nowhere. (Please forgive me if I come across a touch Forest Gump: even back in the day I only had half a clue about Linux admin.) If anyone can offer advice, I'd be most grateful.
I've installed Arch Linux under WSL and I'm trying to install Mercury using the instructions at <a class="qt-OWAAutoLink qt-elementToProof" id="qt-OWAf46ccef3-2554-dc52-4f6f-c97218b508fe" href="https://dl.mercurylang.org/deb/"> Mercury packages for .deb based systems</a></div><div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="qt-elementToProof"><br></div><div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="qt-elementToProof">Now Arch, it seems, uses something called 'pacman' to install things, whereas the instructions refer to 'apt'. Okay, so </div><div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="qt-elementToProof"><br></div><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;list-style-type:disc;"><li style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div role="presentation" class="qt-elementToProof">I install 'apt', edit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mercury.list to include</div></li></ul><div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="qt-elementToProof"><br></div><div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="qt-elementToProof"><div>deb http://dl.mercurylang.org/deb/ DISTRO main</div><div> deb-src http://dl.mercurylang.org/deb/ DISTRO main</div></div><div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="qt-elementToProof"><br></div><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;list-style-type:disc;"><li style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div role="presentation" class="qt-elementToProof">I run the weird GPG thing that the document tells me to do</div></li></ul><div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="qt-elementToProof"><br></div><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;list-style-type:disc;"><li style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div role="presentation" class="qt-elementToProof">I run 'apt update' and then...</div><div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div role="presentation" class="qt-elementToProof"><br></div></div></li></ul><div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="qt-elementToProof">[root@Herbert tmp]# apt update</div><div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="qt-elementToProof">Ign:1 http://dl.mercurylang.org/deb DISTRO InRelease</div><div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="qt-elementToProof">Err:2 http://dl.mercurylang.org/deb DISTRO Release</div><div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="qt-elementToProof"> 404 Not Found [IP: 45.56.89.38 80]</div><div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="qt-elementToProof">Error: The repository 'http://dl.mercurylang.org/deb DISTRO Release' does not have a Release file.</div><div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="qt-elementToProof">Notice: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.</div><div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="qt-elementToProof">Notice: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.</div><div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="qt-elementToProof">Notice: Missing Signed-By in the sources.list(5) entry for 'http://dl.mercurylang.org/deb'</div><div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="qt-elementToProof"><br></div><div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="qt-elementToProof">At this point I'm so far down the rabbit hole of Things I Don't Care About While Recovering From The Flu that I'm here to call for help.</div><div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="qt-elementToProof"><br></div><div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="qt-elementToProof">Is the right thing to do now to try installing from the sources instead?</div><div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="qt-elementToProof"><br></div><div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="qt-elementToProof">Anyway, looking forward to re-connecting with everyone again!</div><div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="qt-elementToProof"><br></div><div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="qt-elementToProof">Cheers,</div><div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="qt-elementToProof">Ralph</div><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>users mailing list</div><div><a href="mailto:users@lists.mercurylang.org">users@lists.mercurylang.org</a></div><div><a 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