Re: force i386 deb in amd64 sarge?

["Gudjon I. Gudjonsson" <gudjon@mc2.chalmers.se>]

Hi 
   I have used  --force-architecture to install openoffice 1.9 and it worked 
charmly until the last version. Now I use it in chroot. It shouldn't harm to 
force opera into your system. You can then just remove it.

/Gudjon

Þann Miðvikudagur 31. ágúst 2005 09:45 skrifaði Colin Andrews:
> Hi -
>
> I'm trying to install the opera web browser to give it a try (since they
> were giving away free registrations today). I downloaded a deb from them,
> but when I try to install it, dpkg complains:
>
> dpkg: error processing opera_8.02-20050727.5-shared-qt_en_sarge_i386.deb
> (--install):
>  package architecture (i386) does not match system (amd64)
>
> they don't have an amd64 version of the deb.
>
> Is there any way that I can still use this deb? I tried looking at the dpkg
> help and found the -force-architecture option.
>
> I tried searching this list for something about that option but didn't find
> anything helpful.
>
> Is this a bad idea? I suppose it depends on the dependencies...;)
>
> Please cc me in replies I'm not on this list.