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 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.
