Yes, I'm aware that third party repos and PPAs will result in broken upgrades -- disabling those (or removing all the software installed from them?) is on my list for when Debian 13 drops.
That said, I'm trying to install BOINC from ppa:costamagnagianfranco/boinc and there doesn't seem to be a way to get there. I tried and got a stack of cryptic-seeming error messages; after a Google search, I discovered this is a bug where add-apt-repository doesn't output in a form Debian 12 will accept in sources.list; the work-around is to use -- which results in an "invalid URI" message. Manually adding the PPA to sources.list as and running resulted in "The method driver usr/lib/apt/methods/ppa could not be found. Is the package apt-transport-ppa installed?"
I attempted and got "Unable to locate package apt-transport-ppa" (and a search kept trying to show me apt-transport-http which AFAIK isn't what I want/need).
Where do I go from here? Or how do I get a BOINC install that's up to date enough to work correctly and will let me specify where it stores the work units (so they're not taking up space in my / folder)?
That said, I'm trying to install BOINC from ppa:costamagnagianfranco/boinc and there doesn't seem to be a way to get there. I tried
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:costamagnagianfranco/boincCode:
sudo add-apt-repository -U ppa:costamagnagianfranco/boincCode:
deb ppa:costamagnagianfranco/boinc all mainCode:
sudo apt updateI attempted
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sudo apt install apt-transport-ppaWhere do I go from here? Or how do I get a BOINC install that's up to date enough to work correctly and will let me specify where it stores the work units (so they're not taking up space in my / folder)?
Statistics: Posted by Silent Observer — 2025-01-22 19:46 — Replies 4 — Views 85