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Bsa B33

Member

Registered: 2014-04-07

Posts: 8

Debian packages

Hi,

Is it possible to install DEBIAN packages (armhf) on SLITAZ ARM ?

I tried to convert the .deb with TAZPKG but it only accepts "i386" packets !

I changed TAZPKG to accept "armhf" packages but it seems that "dpkg-deb" does not work all the time (it does nothing extract) and dependencies are not managed.

Are the DEBIAN / SLITAZ paths identical ?

necrophcodr

Member

Registered: 2014-02-20

Posts: 101

Re: Debian packages

You shouldn't extract i386 packages to run on the ARM architecture. Those need completely different binary files in order to run, because the CPU architecture is completely different

In order to run hte application on SliTaz ARM, you would need to recompile it from source code.

Bsa B33

Member

Registered: 2014-04-07

Posts: 8

Re: Debian packages

Indeed, the 386 and ARM processors are completely different!

Maybe I'm done wrong understanding.

I do not want to install i386 packages (that would be stupid) but ARMHF packages.

If we try, TAZPKG returns an error "Invalid target ..."

If you look at the code TAZPKG it is written for the convert functions:

convert_deb()

{

.

.

   case $target in

   i386|all)

   .

   .

   *)

   eval_gettext "Invalid target: \$target (expected i386)";

   .

   .

}

So it seems that TAZPKG does not accept ARMHF packages but i386 packages!

This is strange ...