Not calling myself an idiot but...I'll go find my shoes. ;) I have no excuse. Time to dig back into the man page(s) and see if I can glean anything more. Rod
Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 18, 2015, at 01:40, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > On 09/18/2015 03:42 AM, rod wrote:> So... >> Following the directions given (on two different machines just to make >> sure) I get to the point where I try to use dpkg -i to install the >> downloaded file and I end up with this error: >> >> I have no name!@ravirin:/# dpkg -i libpcre3_8.35-7.1+sparc64_sparc64.deb >> dpkg: error while loading shared libraries: libpcre.so.3: cannot open >> shared object file: No such file or directory > > Well, it actually tells you what's wrong. Your problem is that dpkg > requires libpcre3.so.3 to work which is in the package you are > currently trying to install. > > $ dpkg-deb -c libpcre3_8.35-7.1+sparc64_sparc64.deb |grep libpcre.so.3.13.1 > -rw-r--r-- root/root 437096 2015-08-11 04:18 > ./lib/sparc64-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3.13.1 > lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2015-08-11 04:18 > ./lib/sparc64-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3 -> libpcre.so.3.13.1 > > Just extract libpcre3.so.3.13.1 manually and copy it into place: > > $ dpkg -x libpcre3_8.35-7.1+sparc64_sparc64.deb ~/libpcre3 > $ cp -av ~/libpcre3/lib/sparc64-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3.13.1 \ > sid-sparc64-sbuild/lib/sparc64-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3.13.1 > $ ln -s sid-sparc64-sid/lib/sparc64-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3.13.1 \ > sparc64-sid-sbuild/lib/sparc64-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3 > > Then try again. > >> Q1: did I miss a step? I am logged in as myself and not as root. Does it >> matter? > > No, you didn't. I forgot to mention that. But the error message above > should have given you the proper clue. > >> Q2: should debootstrap --second-stage be run from within chroot or from >> outside? > > Of course *within* the chroot. The idea behind the two stages is that > the first stage is run on the host system while the second stage is > run on the target system when using --foreign to debbootstrap a foreign > architecture. > > Please read the manpage of debootstrap. > > Adrian > > -- > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org > `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de > `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913