On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 5:37 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hi Adam! > > > That's the architecture of your kernel. If your machine is capable of running > 64-bit code, debian-installer will install a 64-bit kernel. Your userland, > i.e. > all applications, are still 32-bit. > > See the output of: > > $ dpkg --print-architecture > >> Is there a 64 bit build? > > You need to add ppc64 as a Multi-Arch architecture by adding the following > line to your sources.list: > > deb [arch=ppc64] http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/ unstable main > deb [arch=ppc64] http://incoming.ports.debian.org/buildd/ unstable main > deb [arch=ppc64] http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/ unreleased main > > All other deb lines (not deb-src lines) need to have [arch=powerpc] added. > > Then install the debian-ports-archive-keyring package and run: > > # dpkg --add-architecture ppc64 > > Then: > > # apt update
Ok so far so good. Here is where I run into a problem. W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/jessie/updates/InRelease Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-ppc64/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file) W: Failed to fetch http://ftp-nyc.osuosl.org/debian/dists/jessie-updates/InRelease Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-ppc64/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file) W: Failed to fetch Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-ppc64/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file) The (In)Release files don't have listings for ppc64 packages, only ppc64el. I found two mirrors with those listings and edited the sources.list file. However it's still looking in the wrong place. W: Failed to fetch http://mirror.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/debian/dists/jessie-updates/InRelease Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-ppc64/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file) That InRelease file has no ppc64/Packages listing but this Release file does http://mirror.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/debian-ports/debian/dists/sid/Release A bit confused at the moment...
