Hi, Bill, Thanks for your advice!
>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. 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? Weidong -----Original Message----- From: Bill Gatliff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 4:28 PM To: Weidong Li Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: How to install iceweasel on a Linux device without using Debian installer? Weidong Li wrote: > > Hi, > > I'd like to iceweasel and its dependency libraries on an ARM-based > Linux device which does not have all those Debian tools. Can anyone > give me some advice on how to install it manually? > Well, there's probably a Makefile in the source code somewhere... :) But seriously, in the past I've debootstrapped a debian environment for the target, plugged my binaries into it, and then started rm'ing the stuff that kept it from fitting into the hardware. I wouldn't recommend that approach in the general case, but as a one-off it's tolerable. Advice: take good notes, because there really never is such a thing as a "one-off". :) b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
