[Bug] make is not installed and can't(?) be installed

[petusky]

Describe the bug
I am unable to install a driver for a USB wifi adapter because make is not installed. (Note that I am connected to WIFI via USB to my computer.).

@volansky describes the need to install make in this post from 2016: ev3dev/ev3dev#703

However, I'm unable to install make (using a command like sudo apt-get update). I get the following:

The repository 'http://security.debian.org stretch/updates Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Data from such a repository can't be authenticated and is therefore potentially dangerous to use.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
W: The repository 'http://httpredir.debian.org/debian stretch Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Data from such a repository can't be authenticated and is therefore potentially dangerous to use.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

Is there a workaround for this security issue? Or another way to install make on the EV3?

(Mine is running GNU bash, version 4.4.12(1)-release (arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi) )

To reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
Connect to the EV3 using SSH. Issue "sudo apt-get update".

Expected behavior
I thought that would install make for me.

Screenshots
Other efforts to install make fail:

Here's the screen shot of the warning:

[dlech]

Known issue. Please see step 6.1 in the getting started guide on how to fix this.

https://www.ev3dev.org/docs/getting-started/

[petusky]

Thank you. That feedback was both timely and helpful and helped move me along. However, I'm still not all the way there. The bottom line is that I'm missing a build directory needed for make. I've tried updating Linux headers but that didn't fix the problem.

Here's what I've done:

1. Updated /etc/apt/sources.list, per the instructions in Step 6.1 referenced by @dlech.

2. Update the kernel:
   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get upgrade
   sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

3. Installed build-essentials to install make:
   sudo apt-get install build-essential

4. Downloaded the WIFI adapter driver and copied to EV3 using scp. From terminal on the mac (not the SSH session):
   scp ./EW-7811Un_V2_Linux_Driver_1.0.1.3.zip [email protected]:/home/robot

5. Unzipped on SSH:
   unzip EW-7811Un_V2_Linux_Driver_1.0.1.3

6. Per instructions for the Edimax wifi adapter instructions on the amazon page, I updated headers:
   sudo apt install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

7. I installed bc, after make warned me that it was not found:
   sudo apt install bc

8. I navigated to the folder with the driver (/home/robot/EW-7811Un_V2_Linux_Driver_1.0.1.3) and invoke make:
   make

But I get an error that the build directory is missing (/lib/modules/4.14.117-ev3dev-2.3.5-ev3/build). I've navigated there and indeed it is missing:

robot@ev3dev:~/EW-7811Un_V2_Linux_Driver_1.0.1.3$ make
make ARCH=armv5tejl CROSS_COMPILE= -C /lib/modules/4.14.117-ev3dev-2.3.5-ev3/build M=/home/robot/EW-7811Un_V2_Linux_Driver_1.0.1.3  modules
make[1]: *** /lib/modules/4.14.117-ev3dev-2.3.5-ev3/build: No such file or directory.  Stop.
Makefile:2461: recipe for target 'modules' failed
make: *** [modules] Error 2

I've researched this missing directory problem, but all the posted solutions I found tell me to deal with steps I've already tried above (such as updating Linux headers.). So at this point I'm stuck. Help, please!

[dlech]

-C /lib/modules/4.14.117-ev3dev-2.3.5-ev3/build

Hmm... I don't think the files from that directory ever got packaged with the ev3dev kernel. So you would probably have to build your own kernel first to get that directory.

[Sirus-7]

Because debian stretch is no longer in the current repository change in /etc/apt/sources.list

deb-src http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free
change to
deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-security/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/744401/security-repo-for-debian-stretch-not-working-anymore

[petusky]

Thanks @Sirus-7. However, I checked off that box earlier, per the instructions by @dlech, which instructed me to update /etc/apt/sources.list to :

deb http://archive.debian.org/debian stretch main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://archive.debian.org/debian stretch main contrib non-free

deb http://archive.ev3dev.org/debian stretch main
#deb-src http://archive.ev3dev.org/debian stretch main