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New to Debian
Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 7:37 am
by rhaadcofboktor
Just installed Debian on my powerpc mac mini and I'm struggling to find a usable version of mudlet. When I try and run the installer it doesn't do anything. I changed the properties to allow executing file as a program but I can't get it to install. Like I said in the subject line, I am very new to Linux and any help you all could offer would be . . . well . . . helpful.
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Also if there is a way to include Mudlet in my Software Sources that would be awesome. I tried
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deb http://enc.com.au/apt/ unstable main
but couldn't get it to work right. Thank you again,
Re: New to Debian
Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 7:40 am
by Omit
Re: New to Debian
Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 7:45 am
by rhaadcofboktor
When I try running the files there is indicates the archive type is not supported
Re: New to Debian
Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 12:04 pm
by csmall
It's for an amd64 computer so it won't work on a powerPC mac. The sources are there and can be compiled pretty easily though its a bit daunting if you've not done it before.
I'll see if I can get to a Debian porter box and compile it there too.
Re: New to Debian
Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 1:36 am
by csmall
csmall wrote:I'll see if I can get to a Debian porter box and compile it there too.
They don't have the required packages, so I cannot build it for you.
If anyone is really keen and has the download quota and disk space available it is a matter of
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apt-get install build-essential devscripts
apt-get build-dep mudlet
apt-get source mudlet
cd mudlet-2.0-rc1~20110116
debuild -b
[wait while its built]
cd ..
dpkg -i mudlet_2.0*.deb
That will download a fair bit to make your system able to compile packages, so be warned.
Re: New to Debian
Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 8:53 pm
by rhaadcofboktor
I'll give that a try, thank you for your help.