frc-toolchain package working on Debian Stretch

[WyattMarks]

So, first of all you can't add-apt-repository by default on Debian, so you must install software-properties-common
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common

Once you do that, you can do the normal
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:wpilib/toolchain

After you run this successfully, you must edit the sources file. So run
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/wpilib-ubuntu-toolchain-zesty.list (the file name might not be 'zesty' but it should be similar)

change any of the debian names from trusty or stretch or whatever it is to wily

then you must go to https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/xenial/amd64/libisl13/0.14-2 for 64 bit or https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/xenial/i386/libisl13/0.14-2 for 32 bit

Download the .deb file and then run sudo dpkg -i libisl13_0.14-2_amd64.deb (or i386 for 32-bit) to install the library. This library is included with supported Ubuntu versions but isn't in Debian Stretch, so we can just install them from Ubuntu repositories

After this, run sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install frc-toolchain

and then it should work!

[WyattMarks]

Okay, there are some typos.. how do I edit a post?

[Mark McLeod]

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