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Title: Dpkg On C3000
Post by: gjarboni on February 02, 2005, 10:27:35 am
In the past, .deb packages used the same format at .ipk files -- that is a tgz file that contained config(?).tar.gz and data.tar.gz plus a file that specified the version number.

At some point this changed. Now .deb files have two lines that specify the package version and something else, followed by a line that indicates how big a binary section follows + the name of the file , followed by the binary, followed another line indicating size and filename, etc.

I doubt that made any sense, so you might want to click  here (http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/1996/03/msg00304.html) for a better explanation.

Anyway, my question is simple enough. The SL-C3000 contains dpkg, a utility that will unpack and install .deb files. But when you run it complains about a directory being missing. Create the directory and it will seg fault. So, does anyone know what's required to allow dpkg to run. There are a lot of packages in the Debian Arm distribution that should run on the C3000.

Thanks,

Jason M.