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Re: comparing x86 and powerpc laptops



Le mer 09/04/2003 à 12:21, Geert Uytterhoeven a écrit :
> On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, christophe barbe wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 12:57:27PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > On 9 Apr 2003, florian wrote:
> > > > another criteria for me is also: gotta work well with eclipse and other
> > > > java stuff. its possible to compile eclipse by hand to run on debian ppc.
> > > > but it works kinda buggy..
> > > 
> > > apt-get install eclipse?
> > 
> > ~$ apt-cache policy eclipse
> > W: Unable to locate package eclipse
> > 
> > It's not in the powerpc archive as dar as I know.
> 
> Probably not yet. The Debian package was announced on Debian Weekly last week. 
> You can always try apt-source, though.

I am afraid the picture is not as good.
You can check for example:
	http://packages.qa.debian.org/e/eclipse.html

I have not tried it from source but it should be a reason why only linux
x86 package is available from eclipse.org.

Christophe 

> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
> 						Geert
> 
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
> 
> In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
> when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
> 							    -- Linus Torvalds
-- 
christophe barbe <christophe@cattlegrid.net>



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