peter_donnelly
MModular
•Created by MPloppy on 9/11/2023 in #questions
Why the crappy system-breaking script for installation?
I didn't mind the script, however it errored out on the "apt-get update" step. and it took me a while to figure out that what was going.
Which was this:
I have a couple dangling repos that I don't care about: they give apt-get update errors which I just ignore.
However the installer catches these apt-get errors and terminats the installation with a very unhelpful error message I had to figure out where the remote installation script was (two levels of indirection), and copy it into a text file to locate the problem. (The installer script sends apt-get output to &>$tmp_log (which I couldn't find)). Stripping off &>$tmp_log revealed what was going on. Anyhoo, that wasted about an hour. Although it did force me to tidy up my repos, so there's that.
However the installer catches these apt-get errors and terminats the installation with a very unhelpful error message I had to figure out where the remote installation script was (two levels of indirection), and copy it into a text file to locate the problem. (The installer script sends apt-get output to &>$tmp_log (which I couldn't find)). Stripping off &>$tmp_log revealed what was going on. Anyhoo, that wasted about an hour. Although it did force me to tidy up my repos, so there's that.
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