Hello Craig, On Sat, 2015-06-06 at 22:33 +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Sat, Jun 06, 2015 at 09:37:12PM +1000, Mark Trickett wrote: > > I have an Canon LPB-5050N, old stock obviously as it is > > discontinued. I have the Canon CAPT software, version 2.30 which > > includes both RPM's and DEB's. The only problem is that the RPM's are > > both 32 and 64 bit, but the DEB is only 32 bit and I want to install > > on a 64 bit Debian system. > > three thoughts come to mind: > > 1. have you tried just installing the 32-bit .deb package? you would > need to add the i386 architecture (with 'dpkg --add-architecture i386') > if you haven't already done so. you'd also need to install any i386 > libraries and other packages depended upon by the 32-bit .deb (you can > apt-get install them once you've added the i386 architecture)
Will need to sort out a 'net connection, even via sneakernet from my other laptop using a 56K analog modem. Your instructions are appreciated. > > I would appreciate any comments. The appropriate two pieces of > > software have the source in the package, but I am not certain that > > computer has all the necessary development packages, > > 2. check the source for debian build scripts etc. if they are included, > look for the Build-Depends: line of the .../debian/control file and > apt-get install the packages listed. you should then be able to build a > 64-bit .deb > > 3. try a google search for the full filename of the package in > double-quotes and amd64. e.g. '"foo.deb" amd64' - someone may have > already gone to the trouble of compiling a 64-bit version and made it > available somewhere. as usual when considering third-party packages, > use your best judgement as to whether you trust the source of the > binary package because by installing the package (and thus running the > install scripts, if any) you are effectively giving them root access. > > unofficial packages by debian developers are likely to be safe. > > if you want to examine the package without installing it, you can > extract the contents of a .deb package (including the pre and post > install and rm scripts) into a temporary directory using 'dpkg-deb -x > <filename.deb> <dir>' The package as I have is a .tar.gz with a lot in it, including the manual and there are also some helper programs that might help monitor things like toner levels. Such are not essential, but can be quite convenient. I a trying to look over code, and while each individual bit fits, I cannot assemble a mental structure of what is going on, yet. I do have a helper script from elsewhere, for the prior version, which it appears did have a Debian 64 bit version. If I can email you some details, would you be able to grab and put somewhere where I would be able to use wget to transfer? I am finding that the search engines are a mixed blessing on the dial up connection. When I can locate a resource, some of them do not respond well, and the download manager in FF has a bad "feature" of truncation and no way to resume or tell it that the transfer has more to go. > craig Regards, Mark Trickett _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
