How do you install debian packages on the empeg?

Posted by: hamzy

How do you install debian packages on the empeg? - 24/08/2000 13:09

I couldn't find dkpg on the empeg and there are various packages that I would like to try to install.

Could someone put up a tgz file of the package installer on the developer site?

What gets me is that dpkg is only in package form (.deb) on the Debian site. You need a package installer to install the package installer.

I tried using alien on a Intel Red Hat system and it couldnt covert arm packages (but could convert i386 ones).

In fact, I now have a --2.tgz file that I can't do anything to it! rm --2.tgz doesn't work and you can't escape the -- characters.

Mark

Posted by: BryanT

Re: How do you install debian packages on the empeg? - 24/08/2000 13:32

I was just about to post this same message...

I'd really like to get an HTTP server up & running. Scanning the boards tells me this is a pretty common modification, it'd be nice to put together a single file install and instructions on how to do this as well.

--Bryan

Posted by: BryanT

Re: How do you install debian packages on the empeg? - 24/08/2000 14:03

I found a dpkg in GZip format here:
ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/project/dpkg/dpkg-1.6.9_arm.nondebbin.tar.gz

Now, how do I go about installing PPP and an HTTP Server? Is there an updated version of the Kernel with PPP service turned on?

--Bryan

Posted by: tonyc

Re: How do you install debian packages on the empeg? - 24/08/2000 15:04

Okay, I'll ask... What is the appeal/benefit of running an HTTP server on the Empeg? I am a programmer, and I LOVE gadgets and hacking things, but I can't think of a practical application...

Posted by: hamzy

Re: How do you install debian packages on the empeg? - 24/08/2000 15:08

Well, what I was considering was to see if icecast (a mp3 streaming server) could run on it.

As for an http server, one use would be a remote interface to control the player.

Posted by: tfabris

Re: How do you install debian packages on the empeg? - 24/08/2000 15:12

And with the appropriate third-party software to link the tag information to the fids, it could be a file server for your MP3 files.

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Tony Fabris

Posted by: rjlov

Re: How do you install debian packages on the empeg? - 24/08/2000 16:44

In fact, I now have a --2.tgz file that I can't do anything to it! rm --2.tgz doesn't work and you can't escape the -- characters.

That's because it's not the shell which is interpreting the --, it's rm. Try rm -- --2.tgz. Or rm ./--2.tgz. Whatever.

Richard.

Posted by: anti

Re: How do you install debian packages on the empeg? - 19/09/2000 05:52

Just a short note on ".deb"s in general.
They are just archives, so a "ar x dpkg...deb" and then a "tar xzf data.tar.gz" brings you a giant step further.

And there was a fully functional debian-arm-tgz somewhere.

anti

Posted by: loren

Re: How do you install debian packages on the empeg? - 28/10/2000 12:42

okay, so i'm starting to get my fingers wetter and wetter in linux. I'm attempting to mess around with the icecast streaming package. I got the GZiped dpkg and slapped it on the empeg. After i unzipped it, i got two directories, "usr" and "var", the contents of which i copied to the appropriate directories (bin, sbin, etc..) Sooo...i'm assuming that would be the correct way to install it given that i'm flying by guesses here. After that i attempted to dpkg the icecast .deb package and i get the following error...

"dpkg: failed to open package info file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' for reading: No such file or directory"

any help would be appreciated...

OR...is someone else already working on this. I know there were threads about it and hamzy actually got it working... but they've been stagnant for a while... Hamzy... if your listening, what's the status?

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Posted by: hamzy

Re: How do you install debian packages on the empeg? - 06/11/2000 17:04

I've been on vacation for a while...
From what I remember, if you want to install a package, use the Debian root environment because it has all of the files.
I didn't really install shoutcast. I just compiled it and ftped the exe over along with the few ascii files it was looking for.

Posted by: loren

Re: How do you install debian packages on the empeg? - 06/11/2000 17:23

so you did get it working, no? Any other tips you can offer or was it pretty straight forward? Thanks =]

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Posted by: hamzy

Re: How do you install debian packages on the empeg? - 10/11/2000 13:07

yes. It was pretty straight forward.