Hi. On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 06:24:59PM +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > hi, > get a amd64 deb package (franz, to name it), and converted it to i386, > using the recommended sequence: > > dpkg-deb -x ../paquet_amd64.deb . > dpkg -e ../paquet_amd64.deb > in DEBIAN/control, replaced amd64 by i386 > dpkg-deb -b . ../paquet_i386.deb
So you haven't touch the contents of package itself. > but after installing the resulting .deb. I still get a amd64 binary. > What did I miss? See above. No magic here, files provided by package stayed the same. > Is there a way to convert the binary itself to i386? If the binary was produced by compiling conventional ASM/C/C++ source - no. Rebuild from the source is required. Reco