Linux Mint 19.2 Cinnamon compile error

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jkluth
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Linux Mint 19.2 Cinnamon compile error

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When I try to compile using the compile script from the Linux compile guide for Mint (changing libpng12 (obsolete)to libpng I get the error"
E: The value 'xenial' is invalid for APT::Default-Release as such a release is not available in the sources
" and now when I try to refresh my update manager or use my package manager it throws the same error. Am I completely hosed or is there some fix other than reinstalling Linux and all of my software?
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Re: Linux Mint 19.2 Cinnamon compile error

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You can describe in more detail exactly what actions you performed and attach logs with errors.
If you still have the full action logs.

You did not connect third-party PPA?
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Re: Linux Mint 19.2 Cinnamon compile error

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I did a copy and paste of the Linux Mint compile guide into terminal. With the exception of changing libpng12-dev to libpng-dev I made no other changes to the script.
sudo apt-get install -y autoconf automake build-essential qtscript5-dev libpng-dev libtheora-dev libopenal-dev libvorbis-dev libglew-dev libphysfs-dev libfribidi-dev libfreetype6-dev libharfbuzz-dev libfontconfig1-dev libgl1-mesa-dev gdb docbook-xsl libxml2-utils xsltproc asciidoc wkhtmltopdf gettext
sudo -i
printf 'deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful main restricted universe multiverse\n' >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
printf 'APT::Default-Release "xenial";\n' > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00local
apt-get update
apt-get install -y -t artful libsdl2-dev
exit

Upon further research I find that xenial is an earlier version of Ubuntu than the version Mint 19.2 is using (bionic). As the instructions were tested for 18.3 is it possible that the script included a reference to xenial and that somehow corrupted apt-get?
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Re: Linux Mint 19.2 Cinnamon compile error

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You need to remove the added lines from
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
and remove file
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00local

You should already have SDL ≥ 2.0.5 in the official repositories. You do not need to connect third-party PPA.
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Re: Linux Mint 19.2 Cinnamon compile error

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This fixed it. Thank you very much for the assistance.
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