-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Jaime Silvela wrote:
> Hi, I've been using Debian 2.0 for over a year in my home PC and I > think it's great. I like it so much that I would like to install it in > the computer I use in college, which is a SPARC running Solaris, now > that there is a SPARC Debian. > > However, they won't give me permission to do it, so I would like to at > least install a few .deb packages (gtk+, the compilers...) on top of > Solaris. Is that possible, or must I get the source code and compile? > Has anybody tried this? > You need to compile the packages from source. Linux and Solaris are entirely different operating systems. The SPARC Debian is still using the Linux kernel. Solaris uses the SunOS 5 kernel. Solaris wouldn't have a clue about what to do with Linux binaries. You should not have any trouble getting the packages to compile from source. However, it probably won't do you any good to build .deb files. You'll need to compile and install dpkg, and the admins there probably won't give you access to the preferred system directories, so you'll have to do some hacking to force dpkg to keep everything contained within directories that you've got access to. Even if you are able to get the necessary directory trees in place for package installation, the dependencies would really get in the way. For example, gcc depends on binutils, which depends on ldso. ldso is the runtime linker. It would really not be possible to install the Linux runtime linker on top of solaris, even if there was some kind of binary compatibility standard. noah PGP public key available at http://lynx.dac.neu.edu/home/httpd/n/nmeyerha/mail.html or by 'finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]' -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBN+Zj8IdCcpBjGWoFAQGRwAP9FSvzLeMcj/L2PEVBRpR+3T7MzihZg8tO GOv2NWVnLPdSyrknMVqdoLzdefEcTTa9O4xzB8To/cREIxtLgm64fTv9XAQHFzd3 fNrCm2R83sb37r7Y+HHDWhDI+bYuGVGBBvrl9wAql8QagFq+kFvXyWj5I7abxt5m vHFLIACjORs= =o55s -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
