<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <style type="text/css" style="display:none;"> P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} </style> </head> <body dir="ltr"> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="elementToProof"> Hi everybody,</div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="elementToProof"> <br> </div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="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="elementToProof"> <br> </div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="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="OWAAutoLink elementToProof" id="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="elementToProof"> <br> </div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="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="elementToProof"> <br> </div> <ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; list-style-type: disc;" data-editing-info="{"applyListStyleFromLevel":false,"unorderedStyleType":1}"> <li style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <div role="presentation" class="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="elementToProof"> <br> </div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="elementToProof"> deb http://dl.mercurylang.org/deb/ DISTRO main<br> deb-src http://dl.mercurylang.org/deb/ DISTRO main</div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="elementToProof"> <br> </div> <ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; list-style-type: disc;" data-editing-info="{"applyListStyleFromLevel":false,"unorderedStyleType":1}"> <li style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <div role="presentation" class="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="elementToProof"> <br> </div> <ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; list-style-type: disc;" data-editing-info="{"applyListStyleFromLevel":false,"unorderedStyleType":1}"> <li style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <div role="presentation" class="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="elementToProof"><br> </div> </div> </li></ul> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="elementToProof"> [root@Herbert tmp]# apt update</div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="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="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="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="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="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="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="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="elementToProof"> <br> </div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="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="elementToProof"> <br> </div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="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="elementToProof"> <br> </div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="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="elementToProof"> <br> </div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="elementToProof"> Cheers,</div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="elementToProof"> Ralph</div> </body> </html>