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[Bert Freudenberg <bert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11.10.2011, at 17:17, Amos Blanton wrote:

> 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.

Why wouldn't it? Works fine on ARM (e.g. OLPC XO-1.75 using the Fedora-packaged Squeak VM). Any 32 bit architecture should be fine.

> Also, the plugins won't compile properly for 64 bit architectures AFAIK. I think that's our roadblock.

Yes, although Dave made some progress there.

- Bert -

> 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
> 
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