Have you already added [arch=powerpc] to the other deb lines? (not deb-src lines)
-- Christian Sent from my iPhone > On 29 Mar 2017, at 01:55, Adam Stouffer <adamstouffe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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... >
