Re: getting packages from another platform

[Chris Gorman <chrisgorman@sympatico.ca>]

If you're looking for an automated way of doing it, apt is the only one 
I'm aware of.  If you're looking to have it do the work for you, check out 
man apt.conf.  It appears that there is a way to set the architecture you 
want apt to grab packages for there.  Then apt-get --download-only, so you 
don't overwrite your non-arm tree with arm binaries, copy the binaries out 
of /var/cache/apt/archives onto your flash card, then dpkg -i 
--force-depends package.deb for all the arm packages you get.

Since I've never tried this, I'm not sure it will work.  I hope it does.

Chris

On Sun, 27 Mar 2005, Matthis Rouch wrote:

> Thank you for your reply,
> But is there a way to fetch all dependencies so that the package will work?
>
> -matthis
>
> On 27 Mar 2005, at 23:50, Chris Gorman wrote:
>
> > IIRC, dpkg --force-depends will cause all dependency errors to be turned 
> > into warnings.   You'll still need to satisfy all dependencies if you want 
> > a package to work properly, but you won't need to install the packages in 
> > the 'proper order'.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > On Sun, 27 Mar 2005, Matthis Rouch wrote:
> >
> > > Dear debian-arm users,
> > > Here is my problem: I need to install packages on my psion running 
> > > arm-debian, but the only way I can pass data to it is via a compact flash 
> > > card. So I thought I would download individual packages from my desktop, 
> > > pass them via the compact flash and then run dpkg -i package-name-arm.deb. 
> > > This works for isolated packages, but is hell for those with many 
> > > dependencies. How do I get around this problem? To get apt-get to fetch 
> > > all the necessary arm packages, from another platform?
> > >
> > > Thanks for your help,
> > >
> > > -matthis
> > >
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