Sorry for the delay, working all day (ooh, that rhymes, that):

Jack wrote:

> Have you enabled source packages in your /etc/apt/sources.list? In other words: do you have the proper "deb-src" entries?

Allin wrote:

> Maybe "sudo apt-get update" first?

I tried -sudo apt-get update-, but that didn't work probably because I needed to implement Jack's suggestion of a repository link first, even though I've never needed to before when installing -gretl- in Mint (or any Linux distro, for that matter). The question, then, is which is the correct repository link to add? Trying, for instance

deb http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gretl/gretl-2017b.tar.xz/ main
deb http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gretl/gretl-2017b.tar.xz/ xenial main
deb http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gretl/gretl-2017b.tar.xz/ stable main

and their complementary deb-src entries all choke on errors, so what is the correct entry here? Thanks for your help again.

C
 

On 13 July 2017 at 02:31, Clive Nicholas <clivelists@googlemail.com> wrote:
I'm getting this choker on my newly-built Linux Mint 18.2 desktop after several attempts this week:

[bash]
clive@climate ~ $ sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extra texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-fonts-extra git

[...]

clive@climate ~ $ git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/gretl/git gretl-git
Cloning into 'gretl-git'...
remote: Counting objects: 153006, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (32161/32161), done.
remote: Total 153006 (delta 123847), reused 148682 (delta 120378)
Receiving objects: 100% (153006/153006), 174.65 MiB | 2.76 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (123847/123847), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
clive@climate ~ $ cd gretl-git
clive@climate ~/gretl-git $ sudo apt-get build-dep gretl
[sudo] password for clive:
Reading package lists... Done
E: Unable to find a source package for gretl
clive@climate ~/gretl-git $ apt-get build-dep gretl
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
[/bash]

gretl-2016a is available for quick download from the repository, so this makes no sense whatsoever.

Thoughts?

--
Clive Nicholas

"My colleagues in the social sciences talk a great deal about methodology. I prefer to call it style." -- Freeman J. Dyson



--
Clive Nicholas

"My colleagues in the social sciences talk a great deal about methodology. I prefer to call it style." -- Freeman J. Dyson