RE: How to install iceweasel on a Linux device without using Debian installer?

["Weidong Li" <wli@marvell.com>]

Hi, Bill,

Thanks for your advice!  

>From the Makefile in the src dir, I can find some info.  But there are
too many of them and I suspect they are not used for real installation
on embedded devices.  

Now I have a released version of *.deb package of the browser for ARM,
but the Debian tools are not available on the small device.  What is the
best way to install it?  In general, am I supposed to also get a version
of the Debian tool to put on the ARM device before I can cleanly install
the iceweasel on it?

Weidong

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Gatliff [mailto:bgat@billgatliff.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 4:28 PM
To: Weidong Li
Cc: debian-arm@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: How to install iceweasel on a Linux device without using
Debian installer?

Weidong Li wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to iceweasel and its dependency libraries on an ARM-based 
> Linux device which does not have all those Debian tools. Can anyone 
> give me some advice on how to install it manually?
>

Well, there's probably a Makefile in the source code somewhere... :)

But seriously, in the past I've debootstrapped a debian environment for 
the target, plugged my binaries into it, and then started rm'ing the 
stuff that kept it from fitting into the hardware.

I wouldn't recommend that approach in the general case, but as a one-off

it's tolerable. Advice: take good notes, because there really never is 
such a thing as a "one-off". :)


b.g.

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Bill Gatliff
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