Helium: problem installing 'bunsen-meta-packaging'

damo · 2020-02-28 19:56:45

It probably isn't worth a lot of effort, since BL Helium is about to be superceded by Lithium, but I'm putting this here for reference.

From this thread

twoion wrote:

I'm not sure what the cause of the message shown was; perhaps we should install our own released isos more often to see if something broke in the meantime. If somebody has a minute and could try to reproduce? It looks like OP launched the install from within the live session.

I installed helium-5-amd64.hybrid.iso in a qemu/kvm VM, and ran the initial update/upgrade, and exited the terminal.

sudo apt-get install bunsen-meta-packaging

This comes to halt because pbuilder says that the mirror isn't set. This is probably the reason for the error in bl-welcome found by the OP in the thread linked to above.

sudo apt-get install pbuilder

The process halts with a ncurses screen saying that a mirror wasn't found.
If the suggested mirror is set manually, the install process continues; if instead the screen is closed without setting a mirror, pbuilder seems to have been installed anyway...

$ apt-cache policy pbuilder
pbuilder:
  Installed: 0.228.7
  Candidate: 0.228.7
  Version table:
 *** 0.228.7 500
        500 https://deb.debian.org/debian stretch/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

twoion · 2020-02-28 22:31:16

Many thanks for checking this out. When you talk about setting a mirror manually, do you mean adding it to /etc/pbuilderrc?

rbh · 2020-02-28 22:36:57

Last week I installed 1386 iso without problem, on an physical pc (gt tired of Antix).
So now, I also installed with helium-5-amd64.hybrid.iso. No errors during installation or running bl-welcome skript!
No error on certificates or pbuilder.
Installed all except dropbox.

The only difference is that I edited sources before running wellcomeskript. I use a local repository.

## DEBIAN 9 stretch
deb http://server/mirror/ftp.acc.umu.se/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free
deb http://server/mirror/ftp.acc.umu.se/debian/ stretch-backports main contrib non-free
deb http://server/mirror/ftp.acc.umu.se/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free
deb http://server/mirror/ftp.acc.umu.se/debian/ stretch-proposed-updates main contrib non-free

# Debian Security stretch
deb http://server/mirror/security.debian.org/debian-security/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free

# Bunsenlabs Linux
deb http://server/mirror/eu.pkg.bunsenlabs.org/debian/ helium main
deb http://server/mirror/eu.pkg.bunsenlabs.org/debian stretch-backports main

But, that should not make any difference...

damo · 2020-02-28 22:41:28

twoion wrote:

Many thanks for checking this out. When you talk about setting a mirror manually, do you mean adding it to /etc/pbuilderrc?

The ncurses dialog that appears with the error message suggests a mirror url. I just copied and pasted that into the entry box.

But after I exited the terminal without doing that step ( in a second install test) I found that pbuilder had been installed anyway.

#1 2020-02-28 19:56:45

Helium: problem installing 'bunsen-meta-packaging'

#2 2020-02-28 22:31:16

Re: Helium: problem installing 'bunsen-meta-packaging'

#3 2020-02-28 22:36:57

Re: Helium: problem installing 'bunsen-meta-packaging'

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Re: Helium: problem installing 'bunsen-meta-packaging'

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