SMO2018/2021 clash with 'apt-get update'

[JohnWasilewski]

I have a Linux Zorin system (Ubuntu derivative), which uses .deb install files. After installing SMO-2121 by following the Debian-installation instructions on https://www.softmaker.com/en/tips-linux, I have been finding that

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sudo apt-get update

returns this error message

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E: Repository 'http://shop.softmaker.com/repo/apt wheezy InRelease' changed its 'Label' value from 'SoftMaker Office 2018' to 'SoftMaker Office'
N: This must be accepted explicitly before updates for this repository can be applied. See apt-secure(8) manpage for details.

Please could I have a further Linux CLI terminal command to clear this?
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John

[martin-k]

Yes, that was a bit of a surprise for us. Just a small rewording causes Linux to throw an incomprehensible warning

Please run sudo apt update and confirm.

[freelsjd]

Same error and message here. While at it, perhaps with Debian anyway, the folder name "wheezy" is very much out of date. The current release is "buster" and some release in between also. Debian is released approximately every 2 years. Check update from the app directly works fine.

[martin-k]

The name "wheezy" in our repository has no meaning whatsoever. While historically it was set by us to indicate compatibility with Debian Wheezy, it can be any arbitrary name, even pretzel or sauerkraut

We cannot change it anymore because the add_apt_repo.sh script references it.

[JohnWasilewski]

I have tried two solutions:

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$ sudo aptitude update
:
:
E: Repository 'http://shop.softmaker.com/repo/apt wheezy InRelease' changed its 'Label' value from 'SoftMaker Office 2018' to 'SoftMaker Office'
E: Failed to download some files
W: Failed to fetch http://shop.softmaker.com/repo/apt/dists/wheezy/InRelease: 
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

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(Note the user intervention 'y' after the [y/N] prompt in the 7th-last line)

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$ sudo apt update
:
:
E: Repository 'http://shop.softmaker.com/repo/apt wheezy InRelease' changed its 'Label' value from 'SoftMaker Office 2018' to 'SoftMaker Office'
N: This must be accepted explicitly before updates for this repository can be applied. See apt-secure(8) manpage for details.
Do you want to accept these changes and continue updating from this repository? [y/N]  y
Get:31 http://shop.softmaker.com/repo/apt wheezy/non-free amd64 Packages [825 B]
Fetched 3,137 B in 12s (268 B/s)                                               
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up-to-date.

After this, repeating either sudo apt update OR sudo-apt-get update OR sudo-aptitude update no longer throws an error.
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John

[martin-k]

(Note the user intervention 'y' after the [y/N] prompt in the 7th-last line)

That's what I mean with "confirm" when I wrote "Please run sudo apt update and confirm."

[JohnWasilewski]

Sorry Martin - I did misunderstand you.
I thought you meant 'confirm the same problem with apt as with apt-get.'
My silly mistake.
J.

[martin-k]

Ah, my bad. Ambiguous wording

[freelsjd]

Seems to work fine here now. Thanks.

[martin-k]

[freelsjd]

The name "wheezy" in our repository has no meaning whatsoever. While historically it was set by us to indicate compatibility with Debian Wheezy, it can be any arbitrary name, even pretzel or sauerkraut

We cannot change it anymore because the add_apt_repo.sh script references it.

I hear you and I understand. However, from a USER standpoint, this is confusing. If I put anything except wheezy in that location, it will not update. wheezy is the name of a very old debian distribution that very few people still use, and not sure if it is still supported by the debian project for security patches. This could possibly cause a potential debian customer to think your software is "old", which of course it is NOT !

[martin-k]

I see the problem but this is something we cannot change anymore, and again, it's just optics.