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Model Specific Forums => Sharp Zaurus => Zaurus - pdaXrom => Topic started by: offroadgeek on December 08, 2003, 10:15:12 pm

Title: REC: ftp.debian.org
Post by: offroadgeek on December 08, 2003, 10:15:12 pm

trying to find the location of apps to cross compile for the x11 rom... (this thread was lost)

would someone post again the full path to find apps?

thanks

offroadgeek

Title: REC: ftp.debian.org
Post by: Richjn on December 08, 2003, 10:22:19 pm

The link is

ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/ (http://ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/)

Use packages with \"arm\" in the title

Regards

Richard

Title: REC: ftp.debian.org
Post by: offroadgeek on December 08, 2003, 10:43:58 pm

I don\'t see any apps with \"arm\" in the title...

Title: REC: ftp.debian.org
Post by: Richjn on December 08, 2003, 10:55:51 pm

Not all apps have been compiled for the arm processor so if the app you require hasn\'t been done you will need to recompile it.

Richard

Title: REC: ftp.debian.org
Post by: omin0us on December 09, 2003, 01:21:50 am

Just look in the package directory, there should be a bunch of .deb files with endings like sparc.deb, ppc.deb and arm.deb
download the arm one. Also a .deb is just like an ipk, so if you want to install it you will need to just go like this:

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# mv package.arm.deb package.arm.ar

# ar -x package.arm.ar

# tar -cvf package.arm.tar data.tar.gz control.tar.gz debian-binary; gzip package.arm.tar

# mv package.arm.tar.gz package.arm.ipk

That will make it installable with ipkg, if it still won\'t install with ipkg then you will have to upack it again and then just unpack the data.tar.gz in it and install it by hand.

regards,
omin0us