I was trying to install the stable version using the instructions here:

http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxInstall

[quote="Nginx Wiki"]
sudo su -
echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/nginx/stable/ubuntu lucid main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys C300EE8C
apt-get update
apt-get install nginx
[/quote]

That all went well but when I checked the version number it was 6.51 or something like that, not 7.67.

Long story short when I looked at the ppa on launchpad here:
http://ppa.launchpad.net/nginx/stable/ubuntu/dists/lucid/main/binary-i386/

I found the packages file was empty so of course apt-get couldn't install it:
http://ppa.launchpad.net/nginx/stable/ubuntu/dists/lucid/main/binary-i386/Packages

This is true for all of the packages.

So, is there anyway to correct the PPA with actual installs? I'll be happy to do the i386 one but have no idea how and I'm sure I don't have write permissions.

Thank you in advance for your help.

To answer my own question. Add this to the etc/apt/sources.list file:

[code]
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
[/code]


Then it finds the 7.67-3 version.

The public ppa is still broken though and since that's where most people will install from it only make since that it should be fixed. First impressions and all that.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/08/2010 04:37AM by PicklePumpers.

The instructions from http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxInstall are for the [u]Stable Nginx PPA[/u], if you want the [b]-development version[/b]- you should use this PPA: [b]https://launchpad.net/~nginx/+archive/development[/b]

You add it with
[code]
sudo su -; apt-get install python-software-properties && add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/development
[/code]



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/17/2010 02:30PM by simulacrum.