Introduction, and Windows 7 (SUA 6.1) installation results
Hello,
My name is Tristan Fillmore. Back in 2004, while working as a
Windows/Linux sysadmin, I was experimenting with SFU 3 and thought it
would be neat if it were possible to combine the two worlds of Windows
and Linux by porting Linux packages to SFU/Interix. Alas, although I
had some abilities as an admin, my coding skills were weak and I
wasn't able to make much progress. I couldn't even get a newer GCC to
compile. I am the one who filed this bug:
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15212
I didn't get much response, and anyway my computer wasn't very
powerful so it took a long time to compile anything, so I gave up on
the idea. But recently I built a new, fast computer, and put Windows
7 Beta on it. Realizing that Windows 7 includes SUA, I decided to
take a stab at reviving my old idea. After doing some investigation
on the internet, I was delighted to learn that not only had someone
had the same idea, but had made much more progress than I ever could!
So I am very excited about the prospects of debian-interix.
Currently debian-interix does not install on SUA 6.1 (all part of
running beta software I guess). First of all I ran into this issue:
http://www.suacommunity.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=13668
Basically what it means is I have an amd64 (64-bit) architecture
system so the default "ar" does not work. I fixed that as follows:
$ cd /bin
$ mv ar ar.amd64
$ export PATH=/bin:/opt/gcc.4.2/bin:/usr/contrib/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/contrib/win32/bin:/dev/fs/C/Windows/System32:/dev/fs/C/Windows/SUA/common
So then the install would run, but there were other errors (this
listserver will not let me attach files, but I have uploaded them
here:http://www.gfenestra.org/logfiles.zip). Doing "apt-get check"
shows many packages missing the ms-libc3.5 dependency.
Running "apt-get -f install" to fix dependencies looks like this:
$ apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libstdc++3.5-dummy ms-libc3.5-dummy readline-common
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libstdc++3.5-dummy ms-libc3.5-dummy readline-common
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
25 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 52.4kB of archives.
After unpacking 160kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
ms-libc3.5-dummy libstdc++3.5-dummy readline-common
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
Get:1 http://debian-interix.net unreleased35/main ms-libc3.5-dummy
0.0-20061109 [772B]
Get:2 http://debian-interix.net unreleased35/main libstdc++3.5-dummy
0.0-20061109 [694B]
Get:3 http://ftp.de.debian.org dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/
readline-common 5.2-3.1 [50.9kB]
Fetched 52.4kB in 1s (31.1kB/s)
/bin/sh: line 1: 173 Segmentation fault (core dumped)
/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt
dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH.
dpkg: `start-stop-daemon' not found on PATH.
dpkg: `install-info' not found on PATH.
dpkg: `update-rc.d' not found on PATH.
dpkg: 4 expected program(s) not found on PATH.
NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbin.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
There is one other interesting effect, I can no longer run "whoami":
$ whoami
/bin/whoami: line 28: shift: 1-1: numeric argument required
Unable to initialize device PRN
Anyway, that's as far as I got today. I figured I would introduce
myself and share my results, and ask for advice on how to proceed
next.
Regards,
Tristan
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