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ppa grails package can't be found for Lucid

Asked by Pauline Anthonysamy

Hello,

I am attempting to install grails from the package manager and I have added ppa:groovy-dev/grails to my source list. However, I am the package seem to be unavailable. Below is the error message I am seeing:

sudo apt-get install grails
[sudo] password for anthonys:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package grails

Can someone please help me?

Thanks,
Pauline

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John A Meinel (jameinel) said : 		#1

Once you add the ppa, you need to 'apt-get update' so that apt will scan and find what packages are available. So you should be able to do:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install grails

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Pauline Anthonysamy (pauline-anthonysamy) said : 		#2

Hi John,

Yes, I have done that a couple of time. For some reason the packages are not retrieved. Is there anything else I can try?

-Pauline

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Best William Grant (wgrant) said : 		#3

That PPA only provides packages for Oneiric and Precise, not Lucid. You'll need to upgrade your Ubuntu installation, or find somewhere else to get grails.

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Pauline Anthonysamy (pauline-anthonysamy) said : 		#4

That's what I suspected! Thank you so much.

Cheers,
Pauline

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Pauline Anthonysamy (pauline-anthonysamy) said : 		#5

Thanks William Grant, that solved my question.

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Andrew MacKinlay (admackin) said : 		#6

http://grails.org/Download claims "The package work for both i386 and amd64 flavours of Lucid, Maverick, and Natty" - clearly not correct (not the fault of anyone at Launchpad of course). I'll bug them about it, but thought it was mentioning here as well.