Re: running an armel image on 12.04

+++ Scott Douglass [2012-05-22 13:08 +0100]:

Hi,

I’m trying to run an old armel image on 12.04 on Snowball.  It doesn’t run because there’s no armel support; starting with a missing /lib/ld-linux.so.3

How can I add armel support?  I tried this:

# dpkg --add-architecture armel

dpkg: error: unknown option --add-architecture

This is an unfortunate divergence between Debian and Ubuntu syntax.

On debian (dpkg 1.16.3 or later) it is: dpkg --add-architecture armel On Ubuntu (dpkg 1.16.1 to < 1.16.3) it is: echo "foreign-architecture armel" > /etc/dpkg.cfg.d/multiarch

That should allow $package:armel as well as $package:armhf packages to be installed, but I don't know if that will actually solve your problem.

Wookey