On Tue September 13 2022 20:36:44 J Leslie Turriff wrote:
and I had left out the first one. After adding it, once again I'm getting the '...is not valid...' messages. I tried installing ntpdate-deb??n, but both spellings fail with 'Unable to locate package ntpdate-deb??n'
The package you need is just "ntp" so "apt-get install ntp".
On the other hand, apt-get install tde-trinity is proceeding without errors, with the side effect of loading many packages from http://deb.devuan.org/merged apparently without problems; so perhaps this clock thing is actually a problem with the repository server?
It's "random" in that it depends on whether your PC's erroneous clock lies within the validity window of the validation criteria. "ntp" - maybe after ten or twenty minutes depending how bad it is - will adjust your clock. You don't need to run any commands. It starts working upon installation and after every reboot.
--Mike