Re: Where are the packages ?

[Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de>]

Am Freitag, 8. September 2006 10:24 schrieb Hamish Moffatt:
> On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 10:01:44AM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> > I wondered, why some packages cannot be found by apt, although they are
> > still on the Debian-servers in the repository. (in my case I looked for
> > "chntpw" in the non-free branch) Did I miss some change ?
>
> It doesn't seem to be built for anything but amd64. Probably because
> Debian does not auto-build non-free.
>

Yes, that does it explain ! I didn´t know this. Thanks for the info !!!

> It appears that you could build it yourself;
>
> apt-get install build-essential
> apt-get build-dep chntpw
> apt-get source chntpw
> cd chntpw-...
> dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -b
>

Yeah, this worked with no problems. 


Best regards

Hans

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