On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 14:50 -0400, Michael A. Knox wrote: > William Thompson wrote: > > > Porting stuff from 32bit to 64bit is not as straight forward as one > > might think or assume. Not to mention most any 32bit stuff should run in > > 64bit, providing the necessary libraries are there. > > True, but the problem here isn't porting the drivers to x64, but simply > correcting the installer's inability to allow the installation to > proceed when it detects an x64 OS. That's just a few lines of code.
Very likely the case, you should comment to Dell on that. I would say file a bug with upstream, but not sure what you can or can't do when it comes to manufactures like Dell. > Of course, this discussion has me wondering if I could replace the dpkg > binary with a script that would run dpkg with --force-architecture set, Sure why not, just call your script dpkg. Make sure the real dpkg is not in the path anywhere, and have an absolutely reference to that in your script. > although I'm not sure that the catch routine is in dpkg or within the > script itself. Probably within their script. I don't think you can manipulate the environment variable wise to fake out the script. If its doing like uname or other to get the architecture. Not sure how you would go about that. I guess you could keep replacing binaries with scripts. But chances of making a mess increases. You won't hose anything, as a live cd and replacing some binaries will get you back up and running. Just a nasty, hacky, process. > Installing the .deb by itself worked, sort of, but the > scanner is dead and the printer is monochrome only even when set for > color, which tells me that I need to figure out to get the installer to > run without choking on the x64 architecture. There could also be known reasons why it won't work on x64, and thats why the script won't let you proceed. I would check with Dell if you have not already. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
