Re: installing dpkg

2007-10-21 Thread Inuk You
On 2007-10-19 17:19 +0900, Inuk You wrote: Please don't top-post, it's confusing., wook re-arranges Well I installed debian on an arm system by running debootstrap on the other system (a perl script I believe) to generate a new chroot, then I rebooted the system with that new dir as root and

Re: installing dpkg

2007-10-21 Thread Inuk You
On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 05:19:22PM +0900, Inuk You wrote: Thanks Len, But I just wish to not install Debian on new system (partition) but install 'apt' on existing one. That way seems to implement new debian on empty system (partition). right? Anyway, I will try it later. Don't bother.

Re: installing dpkg

2007-10-19 Thread Wookey
On 2007-10-19 10:45 +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Inuk You [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-10-19 10:21]: What I'm trying to do is using dpkg in my system which is not debian. But I don't want to make the system be debian because should maintain the current system. I just wish to use 'apt'

Re: installing dpkg

2007-10-19 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Inuk You [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-10-19 10:21]: What I'm trying to do is using dpkg in my system which is not debian. But I don't want to make the system be debian because should maintain the current system. I just wish to use 'apt' with unchanging the system. ... If what I'm trying to do

Re: installing dpkg

2007-10-19 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 05:19:22PM +0900, Inuk You wrote: Thanks Len, But I just wish to not install Debian on new system (partition) but install 'apt' on existing one. That way seems to implement new debian on empty system (partition). right? Anyway, I will try it later. Don't bother.

Re: installing dpkg

2007-10-19 Thread Wookey
On 2007-10-19 17:19 +0900, Inuk You wrote: Please don't top-post, it's confusing., wook re-arranges Well I installed debian on an arm system by running debootstrap on the other system (a perl script I believe) to generate a new chroot, then I rebooted the system with that new dir as root and

Re: installing dpkg

2007-10-18 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Inuk You [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-10-18 11:35]: I got the following error: dpkg: failed to open package info file `/usr/local/var/dpkg/status' for reading: No such file or directory There is currently no packaging tool like apt in the system. I installed dpkg from source codes and it's

Re: installing dpkg

2007-10-18 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 11:35:10AM +0900, Inuk You wrote: I'd like to know what to install additionally with dpkg packages in order to use the dpkg (e.g. # dpkg -i xxx.deb) properly. I installed dpkg to non-debian from source code, and ran # dpkg -i xxx_arm.deb I got the following

Re: installing dpkg

2007-10-18 Thread Inuk You
Thanks a lot Martin, What are you trying to do exactly, and which ARM platform are you on? - but the real question in this case is why you're not starting with a Debian base. What I'm trying to do is using dpkg in my system which is not debian. But I don't want to make the system be debian