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[Amos Blanton <amos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is it that easy?! That would be so great... :)

However, it looks like "all" means all architectures, and we don't 
expect it'll work on stuff like powerpc. Also, the plugins won't compile 
properly for 64 bit architectures AFAIK. I think that's our roadblock.

Do you think it's worth trying i386,x86_64 ? Is that an option?

On 10/11/2011 08:40 AM, Juha Erkkilä wrote:
> Hi, I just found this software called scratch, and I noticed that
> on page http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Scratch_on_Linux you recommend
> installing it on 64-bit AMD-architecture with:
>
> sudo dpkg --force-architecture -i ./scratch_1.4.0.1-0ubuntu5_i386.deb
>
> If that works, then files in package are very likely architecture
> independent, and it would be better to simply create a debian-package
> that installs without that "--force-architecture"-switch.
>
> You can do this by changing the line "Architecture: i386"
> to "Architecture: all" in
> http://ppa.launchpad.net/scratch/ppa/ubuntu/pool/main/s/scratch/scratch_1.4.0.1-0ubuntu5.diff.gz
> (or from where that is generated, actually), and building
> a new package.  This makes the package architecture independent,
> and installing it on 64-bit will not be such a hassle.
>
> Juha