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?

Have you enabled source packages in your /etc/apt/sources.list? In other

Maybe "sudo apt-get update" first?

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

Am 13.07.2017 um 22:45 schrieb Clive Nicholas: > > 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. OK, first just to be sure, you apparently want to build gretl from git yourself, or you don't need any of the build-dep stuff.