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Date:Sun, 9 May 2004 23:39:39 +0200 
Subject:Re: poplog and freebsd 5.2 
From:bernard 
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On Sat, 08 May 2004 15:04:06 +1000
John Duncan <agley@optusnet.com.au> wrote:

>
>    Hi Bernard,
>               The method in the message Aaron pointed you to works
> pretty well, the only caveat is to start poplog from a plain X-Term if
> you are using a GUI.
>               Another possible way, which I mean to try myself soon, now
> that Brent has kindly made a Debian package of Linux Poplog, is to
> install the linux base-debian port in FreeBSD's /usr/ports/emulators.
>               This apparently works very well and install with dpkg -i
> the Debian package here
>
> http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/debian
>
>                and operate in a chrooted environment.
>
>                                          HTH,
>                                            John Duncan

I am new to FreeBSD. This morning, I knew nothing about linux emulation wit
h FreeBSD. This evening, I know a little more. I tried the Aaron's method.
It failed, because at that time I did not understood that I needed to manag
e the linux emulation. This afternoon, I tried the debian package.

When I first do a dpkg -i, I had an error message :
 impossible d'acc der   la zone d' tat de dpkg: No such file or direc
tory
the french way to say 'cannot access dpkg state zone' (it is my translation)

Then I made
 chroot /compat/linux /bin/bash

dpkg -i works better but it complains :
 poplog depends on libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4); however:
  Version of libc6 on system is 2.2.5-6.
 poplog depends on libx11-6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0); however:
  Package libx11-6 is not installed.
  Package xlibs is not installed.
 poplog depends on libxt6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0); however:
  Package libxt6 is not installed.
  Package xlibs is not installed.

dpkg --force-all -i says that csh was not installed, I install csh. Now, th
e configuration scripts do not find cc.

I had to wake up early tomorrow mornig, so I stop there.

I think the debian package is a good idea, it works like the freebsd packag
e. I had 3 alternatives :
- installing a complete debian system,
- learning more about linux emulation with freebsd,
- making a freebsd package - not that night, I had to learn how to do it be
fore.


However, thanks a lot for the answers.


Bernard.