I couldn't find dkpg on the empeg and there are various packages that I would like to try to install.

Could someone put up a tgz file of the package installer on the developer site?

What gets me is that dpkg is only in package form (.deb) on the Debian site. You need a package installer to install the package installer.

I tried using alien on a Intel Red Hat system and it couldnt covert arm packages (but could convert i386 ones).

In fact, I now have a --2.tgz file that I can't do anything to it! rm --2.tgz doesn't work and you can't escape the -- characters.

Mark

I was just about to post this same message...

I'd really like to get an HTTP server up & running. Scanning the boards tells me this is a pretty common modification, it'd be nice to put together a single file install and instructions on how to do this as well.

--Bryan

I found a dpkg in GZip format here:
ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/project/dpkg/dpkg-1.6.9_arm.nondebbin.tar.gz

Now, how do I go about installing PPP and an HTTP Server? Is there an updated version of the Kernel with PPP service turned on?

--Bryan

Okay, I'll ask... What is the appeal/benefit of running an HTTP server on the Empeg? I am a programmer, and I LOVE gadgets and hacking things, but I can't think of a practical application...

Well, what I was considering was to see if icecast (a mp3 streaming server) could run on it.

As for an http server, one use would be a remote interface to control the player.

And with the appropriate third-party software to link the tag information to the fids, it could be a file server for your MP3 files.

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Tony Fabris

In fact, I now have a --2.tgz file that I can't do anything to it! rm --2.tgz doesn't work and you can't escape the -- characters.

That's because it's not the shell which is interpreting the --, it's rm. Try rm -- --2.tgz. Or rm ./--2.tgz. Whatever.

Richard.

Just a short note on ".deb"s in general.
They are just archives, so a "ar x dpkg...deb" and then a "tar xzf data.tar.gz" brings you a giant step further.

And there was a fully functional debian-arm-tgz somewhere.

anti

okay, so i'm starting to get my fingers wetter and wetter in linux. I'm attempting to mess around with the icecast streaming package. I got the GZiped dpkg and slapped it on the empeg. After i unzipped it, i got two directories, "usr" and "var", the contents of which i copied to the appropriate directories (bin, sbin, etc..) Sooo...i'm assuming that would be the correct way to install it given that i'm flying by guesses here. After that i attempted to dpkg the icecast .deb package and i get the following error...

"dpkg: failed to open package info file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' for reading: No such file or directory"

any help would be appreciated...

OR...is someone else already working on this. I know there were threads about it and hamzy actually got it working... but they've been stagnant for a while... Hamzy... if your listening, what's the status?


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I've been on vacation for a while...
From what I remember, if you want to install a package, use the Debian root environment because it has all of the files.
I didn't really install shoutcast. I just compiled it and ftped the exe over along with the few ascii files it was looking for.

so you did get it working, no? Any other tips you can offer or was it pretty straight forward? Thanks =]


|| loren.cox
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yes. It was pretty straight forward.