Hello David,
Sunday, May 13, 2007, 7:03:49 PM, you wrote:
> There are, sad to say, some packages I want that are not available on
> the Angstrom feed (nedit, wxmaxima, djview, and solitaire--gotta have
> it). It seems that debian arm packages are recognized by ipkg, though
> of course their dependencies are not. OTOH, pdaXrom packages are not
> recognized, since they are compressed, or so file says.
> Will a debian arm package actually work?
Yes (in many cases). But you're on your own installing them.
Don't report or ask help with any issues with Angstrom install after
that - if you compromise system integrity, that's your choice.
> If not, is there another
> X-based arm distribution whose packages work?
> Or do I have to try to compile all this from scratch?
Yes, please compile, test, upgrade to new versions if needed,
submit for inclusion into OpenEmbedded, and request inclusion into
Angstrom feeds. That's the productive way to solve such issues.
> Is it possible to somehow add a debian feed to the feed list?
Debian even doesn't use "feed" term. Even though ipkg is of
course modelled on dpkg/apt-get and Debian package repository formats.
> Will that
> work properly? I tried installing apt and dpkg, but the config files
> are missing, so they exit without doing anything. Is there a way to
> translate the config/status packages from ipkg to apt??
Anything is possible. But why?
--
Best regards,
Paul mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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