Johann Spies wrote: > I want to convert iscan rpm (an Epson scanner driver) to a deb. This > driver only works on i386 systems. > > I have installed multiarch on my system but it seems that there is no alien > that can do the job on my system. > > Alternatively, I have an old deb of this package but dpkg complains there > is a duplicate 'Architecture' line in the control file. Using mc I could > copy the control file from the package to /tmp/ and edit it, but I could > not put it back. How can I correct the control file in the debian package? Since you have good suggestions on rebuilding the deb I would do that. But as for building 32-bit rpms on 64-bit debian I would use a 32-bit chroot. Here is the boiled down instructions. # mkdir -p /srv/chroot # cd /srv/chroot # debootstrap --arch i386 wheezy wheezy-rpm http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian # chroot /srv/chroot/wheezy-rpm su - # cat > ./usr/sbin/policy-rc.d <<-EOF #!/bin/sh exit 101 EOF # chmod a+x ./usr/sbin/policy-rc.d # apt-get update # apt-get install build-essential # apt-get install rpm With that you will be sitting in a 32-bit chroot with rpm installed and a basic build environment. Install what you need for your purposes. You should be able to build your 32-bit rpm there. I would set up my own user uid:gid in the chroot and then be non-root me to build the rpm. $ sudo chroot /srv/chroot/wheezy-rpm su - rwp More details are available here: http://wiki.debian.org/chroot Bob
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