<div dir="auto"><div>If you are comfortable with using Docker there is also a working ROTD image dating back from about a month. It is normally updated daily to current ROTD.<div dir="auto"><br><div dir="auto"><a href="https://github.com/fabnicol/ubuntu4mercury">https://github.com/fabnicol/ubuntu4mercury</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">You can use this image to possibly bootstrap a build from recent source code, should you meet problems doing so directly (this has been recently tested). </div><div dir="auto"><br><div dir="auto">Fabrice Nicol</div><div dir="auto">NB: For about a month the GitHub Actions process has been failing owing to memory overload. I will have to streamline the build a little for it continue working.<div dir="auto"><br></div></div></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le sam. 13 déc. 2025, 13:42, David Overton <<a href="mailto:david@overtons.id.au">david@overtons.id.au</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Welcome back Ralph. I also have recently (well last year) returned to Mercury after a couple of decades away.<div><br></div><div>Prince builds are using an ROTD from last February, this one in particular:</div><div><div><a href="https://github.com/Mercury-Language/mercury-srcdist/releases/tag/rotd-2024-02-27" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/Mercury-Language/mercury-srcdist/releases/tag/rotd-2024-02-27</a></div><div>So installing that ROTD from source may be a good place to start.</div><div><br></div><div>David</div><div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 13 Dec 2025 at 17:34, Paul Bone <<a href="mailto:paul@bone.id.au" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">paul@bone.id.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u><div><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="m_-4666022899145923699m_7807562612943965085qt"><div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Hi everybody,</div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">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)"><br></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">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 id="m_-4666022899145923699m_7807562612943965085qt-OWAf46ccef3-2554-dc52-4f6f-c97218b508fe" href="https://dl.mercurylang.org/deb/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"> Mercury packages for .deb based systems</a></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">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)"><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">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)"><br></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div>deb <a href="http://dl.mercurylang.org/deb/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://dl.mercurylang.org/deb/</a> DISTRO main</div><div> deb-src <a href="http://dl.mercurylang.org/deb/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://dl.mercurylang.org/deb/</a> DISTRO main</div></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><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">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)"><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">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"><br></div></div></li></ul><div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">[root@Herbert tmp]# apt update</div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Ign:1 <a href="http://dl.mercurylang.org/deb" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://dl.mercurylang.org/deb</a> DISTRO InRelease</div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Err:2 <a href="http://dl.mercurylang.org/deb" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://dl.mercurylang.org/deb</a> DISTRO Release</div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> 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)">Error: The repository '<a href="http://dl.mercurylang.org/deb" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://dl.mercurylang.org/deb</a> 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)">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)">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)">Notice: Missing Signed-By in the sources.list(5) entry for '<a href="http://dl.mercurylang.org/deb" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://dl.mercurylang.org/deb</a>'</div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">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)"><br></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">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)"><br></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">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)"><br></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Cheers,</div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Ralph</div><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>users mailing list</div><div><a href="mailto:users@lists.mercurylang.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">users@lists.mercurylang.org</a></div><div><a href="https://lists.mercurylang.org/listinfo/users" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://lists.mercurylang.org/listinfo/users</a></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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