RE: How to install iceweasel on a Linux device without usingDebian installer?
Hi, Mat,
Thanks a lot for your help! Both links you provided are very helpful,
and I particularly like your article on that subject!
Weidong
-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Palmer [mailto:mpalmer@debian.org]
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 7:44 PM
To: debian-arm@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: How to install iceweasel on a Linux device without
usingDebian installer?
On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 03:33:47PM -0800, Weidong Li wrote:
> >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.
It's how Debian itself gets the thing built.
> 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?
Well, "the Debian tool" is... Debian. You might be thinking of dpkg,
which
isn't *technically* required, but it's a lot easier with it.
Unfortunately,
jamming dpkg into a different distro is likely to be an interesting
endeavour.
What will probably be more productive is using debootstrap to create a
base
Debian tree, move that onto the device, then chroot into there to do
your
Debian stuff like installing Iceweasel. This process is fairly
painless,
although it's likely that you'll need a bit of expertise to fix up
niggling
little issues. http://wiki.dns323.info/howto:chroot_debian is an
example
procedure, tailored for the DNS-323.
Of course, what you're far better off doing is porting Debian to run on
the
device natively, and then chroots and all that entertaining stuff are
unnecessary. I've written an article on doing that for the DNS-323 at
http://www.hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/blog/general/porting_d-i_to_the_dns_323.
html
- Matt
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