On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Loïc Minier <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2011, Patrick Doyle wrote: >> deb http://www.emdebian.org/debian/ squeeze main >> line to my sources.list? I've been under the impression that mixing >> Debian repositories with Ubuntu repositories wasn't a good idea, and >> have been attempting to figure out how to install the cross >> development tools without that repository. > > You're correct, it's not recommended to mix Ubuntu and Debian > sources.list entries; there might be exceptions but they are rare :) > >> Perhaps that is the source of my problem. (Although, when I tried >> that, I still had the libmpfr4 problem). > > libmpfr4 is only present in Ubuntu since 10.10 and later releases; if > you're running e.g. Ubuntu 10.04, you wont have access to this package. > > > Ubuntu has pre-packaged cross-compilers for ARM directly in the > archive since Ubuntu 10.10, so you shouldn't need any special > repository with recent Ubuntu releases; just sudo apt-get install > gcc-arm-linux-gnueabi.
Ahhh... therein lies my problem. I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I meant to mention that at the start. > > If you're running Ubuntu 10.04, there are backports of this > cross-toolchain in a PPA maintained by Linaro: > sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linaro-maintainers/toolchain > sudo apt-get update > sudo apt-get install gcc-arm-linux-gnueabi > > Note that you might get a toolchain newer than the one of your host as > a result. I'm not sure I understand what you mean by this. But thanks for providing me the key I need. I think that adding the backport repository should solve my problem. --wpd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
