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Gutsy: "Unknown branch format" during tutorial

Asked by Robert Pollak

I am running Ubuntu 7.10 with Bazaar version 0.90.0, installed via Synaptic.

I want to create a local branch of "gnuhello" as described in the launchpad tutorial at https://help.launchpad.net/FeatureHighlights/EasyBranching .

I see the following error:

$ bzr branch http://launchpad.net/gnuhello
http://launchpad.net/gnuhello/ is permanently redirected to https://launchpad.net/gnuhello/
bzr: ERROR: Unknown branch format: 'Bazaar pack repository format 1 (needs bzr 0.92)\n'

According to http://backports.trausch.us/2007/12/19/new-package-backports-bzr-10/ ,
a newer Bazaar version (which seems necessary) should be available via gutsy-backports,
but after uncommenting the line
deb http://at.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
in /etc/apt/sources.list and reloading package info in Synaptic, there is still only bzr version 0.90-1 offered.

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Robert Pollak (robert-pollak) said : 		#1

Alternatively, should I try to use the Bazaar APT repository (http://bazaar-vcs.org/releases/debs/gutsy) instead? (as described at http://bazaar-vcs.org/DistroDownloads)

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Best Jonathan Lange (jml) said : 		#2

Using the packages provided on the Bazaar website should fix the problem, yes.

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Robert Pollak (robert-pollak) said : 		#3

Thanks Jonathan Lange, that solved my question.

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Fredre Hattingh (fredre) said : 		#4

Just to make things a bit more clear:

I ran into the same problem mentioned above. And to solve the problem added the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bzr/ubuntu gutsy main

then in terminal command: sudo apt-get update
then also in terminal command: sudo apt-get install bzr