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[Bug] make is not installed and can't(?) be installed
Describe the bug I am unable to install a driver for a USB wifi adapter because make is not installed. (Note that I am connected to WIFI via USB to my computer.).
@volansky describes the need to install make in this post from 2016: https://github.com/ev3dev/ev3dev/issues/703
However, I'm unable to install make (using a command like sudo apt-get update). I get the following:
The repository 'http://security.debian.org stretch/updates Release' does not have a Release file. N: Data from such a repository can't be authenticated and is therefore potentially dangerous to use. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details. W: The repository 'http://httpredir.debian.org/debian stretch Release' does not have a Release file. N: Data from such a repository can't be authenticated and is therefore potentially dangerous to use. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
Is there a workaround for this security issue? Or another way to install make on the EV3?
(Mine is running GNU bash, version 4.4.12(1)-release (arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi) )
To reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior: Connect to the EV3 using SSH. Issue "sudo apt-get update".
Expected behavior I thought that would install make for me.
Screenshots Other efforts to install make fail:
Here's the screen shot of the warning:
Known issue. Please see step 6.1 in the getting started guide on how to fix this.
https://www.ev3dev.org/docs/getting-started/
Thank you. That feedback was both timely and helpful and helped move me along. However, I'm still not all the way there. The bottom line is that I'm missing a build directory needed for make. I've tried updating Linux headers but that didn't fix the problem.
Here's what I've done:
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Updated /etc/apt/sources.list, per the instructions in Step 6.1 referenced by @dlech.
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Update the kernel: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
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Installed build-essentials to install make: sudo apt-get install build-essential
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Downloaded the WIFI adapter driver and copied to EV3 using scp. From terminal on the mac (not the SSH session): scp ./EW-7811Un_V2_Linux_Driver_1.0.1.3.zip [email protected]:/home/robot
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Unzipped on SSH: unzip EW-7811Un_V2_Linux_Driver_1.0.1.3
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Per instructions for the Edimax wifi adapter instructions on the amazon page, I updated headers: sudo apt install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
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I installed bc, after make warned me that it was not found: sudo apt install bc
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I navigated to the folder with the driver (/home/robot/EW-7811Un_V2_Linux_Driver_1.0.1.3) and invoke make: make
But I get an error that the build directory is missing (/lib/modules/4.14.117-ev3dev-2.3.5-ev3/build). I've navigated there and indeed it is missing:
robot@ev3dev:~/EW-7811Un_V2_Linux_Driver_1.0.1.3$ make
make ARCH=armv5tejl CROSS_COMPILE= -C /lib/modules/4.14.117-ev3dev-2.3.5-ev3/build M=/home/robot/EW-7811Un_V2_Linux_Driver_1.0.1.3 modules
make[1]: *** /lib/modules/4.14.117-ev3dev-2.3.5-ev3/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
Makefile:2461: recipe for target 'modules' failed
make: *** [modules] Error 2
I've researched this missing directory problem, but all the posted solutions I found tell me to deal with steps I've already tried above (such as updating Linux headers.). So at this point I'm stuck. Help, please!
-C /lib/modules/4.14.117-ev3dev-2.3.5-ev3/build
Hmm... I don't think the files from that directory ever got packaged with the ev3dev kernel. So you would probably have to build your own kernel first to get that directory.
Because debian stretch is no longer in the current repository change in /etc/apt/sources.list
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free change to deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-security/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/744401/security-repo-for-debian-stretch-not-working-anymore
Thanks @Sirus-7. However, I checked off that box earlier, per the instructions by @dlech, which instructed me to update /etc/apt/sources.list to :
deb http://archive.debian.org/debian stretch main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://archive.debian.org/debian stretch main contrib non-free
deb http://archive.ev3dev.org/debian stretch main
#deb-src http://archive.ev3dev.org/debian stretch main