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["Louis Holbrook (for subscriptions only, don't use)" <accounts@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, this looks promising.

However, the chroot command only yields:

chroot: failed to run command ‘/bin/bash’: No such file or directory



On Wed, 2015-05-13 at 17:19 -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> If you want to use CLI tools installed via debs, you need to do it this
> way:
> 
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/620740/how-to-install-regularcli-deb-packages-on-bq-aquaris-e4-5-ubuntu-edition/623311#623311
> 
> Making the phone writable and installing debs to the root partition will
> end up with those installs likely being destroyed at some point when the
> system image is updated, and/or the phone becoming broken if you try to
> use apt-get upgrade or dist-upgrade to upgrade the phone. It isn't built
> around using apt, so using apt is not supported.
> 
> Using a chroot will allow you to install and use CLI utilities as you
> need them, and keep such a system in a container away from the main
> system (unless you bind mount things, but even then only limited
> exposure exists).
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2015-05-13 at 22:26 +0200, Louis Holbrook (for subscriptions
> only, don't use) wrote:
> > I wanted to install the dict cmd line client, but package can't be found
> > through the standard repositories.
> > 
> > Is there a repository that would have a compatible version for
> > AquarisE4.5(r22).
> > 
> > If a downloadable .deb, which compiled format should I use, or do I have
> > to compile on the phone directly?
>