[solved] How to install audio-recorder app from MX Repositories

[Member DonC]

Greetings.

I’m new to antiX, having started with MX Linux first. Just wondering if it is possible to install the application audio-recorder which is in the MX Linux repositories.

Is it possible to add the MX repository to the /etc/apt/sources.list.d and how would I go about it?

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,

DonC

• This topic was modified 1 year, 10 months ago by DonC.

[Member Xecure]

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Hi.

WARNING: MX Linux, though it doesn’t default to systemd boot, requires systemd for some of its applications. Before installing an application from the MX repos make sure what packages it wants to download, install and remove.

To add MX Linux repo to your sources, you can follow these instructions:

0. Create a file /etc/apt/preferences.d/mxlinux (to manage priorities) and add inside:

Package: *
Pin: release a=mx
Pin-Priority: 100

This will give the MX repo less priority compared to the antiX and debian repos.

1. Create the file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mxlinux.list
Add inside:
deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo buster main non-free

2. See if you can update without any GPG key errors.
sudo apt update && apt policy audio-recorder
I think antiX already brings the mx gpg keys registered in the system. If they aren’t, then you may have to add them manually.

Let us know how it goes.

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[Member DonC]

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Hi, Xecure –

Thanks for your instructions. I got the following message :

The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 276ECD5CEF864D8F

How do I add the key in manually?

[Member Xecure]

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Try to get the gpg key.
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 276ECD5CEF864D8F

See if this works.
sudo apt update

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Did a cut n paste and came up with lots of messages which I can’t paste into the CODE box so I just included the most relevant output:

Err:8 http://103.1.138.206/mxrepo.com/mx/repo buster/main i386 Packages  
  File has unexpected size (417997 != 418682). Mirror sync in progress? [IP: 103.1.138.206 80]
  Hashes of expected file:
   - Filesize:418682 [weak]
   - SHA256:05858039e71cf0bb4238dbf53014414fcd3cc73f25d58cd8a8d509bb8c96bd33
   - SHA1:32427d0e9b66ec88c152eb5dd1133ec76f5f1755 [weak]
   - MD5Sum:efc2d86a25d6e19f644b660bd506153c [weak]
  Release file created at: Sun, 20 Jun 2021 01:59:23 +0000

“E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead” message

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I just followed my own steps and get this:

Get:5 http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo buster InRelease [19.9 kB]
Get:7 http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo buster/main amd64 Packages [426 kB]
Get:8 http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo buster/main i386 Packages [419 kB]
Get:9 http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo buster/non-free i386 Packages [33.1 kB]
Get:10 http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo buster/non-free amd64 Packages [35.3 kB]
Fetched 977 kB in 2s (570 kB/s)                             
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
21 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.

No error here. But I have this mirror http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo
and not this mirror: http://103.1.138.206/mxrepo.com/mx/repo

Check the sources list again.

apt policy audio-recorder
audio-recorder:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 3.2.3-0.1~mx19+1
  Version table:
     3.2.3-0.1~mx19+1 100
        100 http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo buster/main amd64 Packages

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Hi, Xecure –

I did a reboot and ran apt update again and was able to locate and install audio-recorder. Strange but great!
I’ve probably messed with Repo Manager a bit previously but the reboot cleared things up.

Once again, thanks very much for your help!

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