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Hi,<br>
I use multi-arch support since quite some time and never got error
or warning messages.<br>
Thats my script:<br>
<small>----<br>
echo "Enable multiarch support"<br>
$ROOTCMD dpkg --add-architecture i386<br>
$ROOTCMD apt-get update<br>
$ROOTCMD apt-get install -y --force-yes ia32-libs<br>
<br>
echo "Install Adobe Acrobat Reader and skype (32bit)" #
libcanberra and gtk2-engines are for acroread)<br>
$ROOTCMD apt-get install -y --force-yes acroread
acroread-plugins skype libcanberra-gtk-module:i386
gtk2-engines:i386<br>
---- </small><br>
Note: As both Skype and acroread are not available though apt on
wheezy (at least I didnt find them there), <br>
I have downloaded both packages and placed them in a local package
repo <br>
<br>
Regards<br>
René<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/20/2014 07:18 PM, Toomas Tamm
wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Hello!
I was struggling with getting multiarch install to work as described
in <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.fai-project.org/wiki/Tips_and_tricks">http://wiki.fai-project.org/wiki/Tips_and_tricks</a>, section "Debian
wheezy and MuliArch" [*] . Everything seemed to be done correctly, but
FAI kept printing the message
WARNING: These unknown packages are removed from the installation list: acroread:i386
I could even ssh into the system being installed and successfully
complete "apt-get install acroread", which made it even more puzzling.
After some careful reading of the sources, I came to the conclusion
that the "dpkg --add-architecture i386" needs to be executed *both* in
the nfsroot (without the $ROOTCMD prefix) as well as inside the chroot
(that is, prefixed with $ROOTCMD). This is because the installable
package list is checked by the /usr/sbin/install_packages script,
apparently against the apt database from the nfsroot, not against the
one in the install target. Later on, the actual install uses the apt
database from the install target itself.
I am not sure if this is a bug or a feature, but I would ask that the
Wiki page be updated accordingly:
#!/bin/bash
echo Adding i386 multi-arch
dpkg --add-architecture i386
$ROOTCMD dpkg --add-architecture i386
(Alternatively, I guess that one can chroot into the nfsroot directory
on the FAI server and execute the "dpkg --add-architecture i386"
therein once and for all. I did not test this, however.)
All this was done with stock FAI 4.0.6 from wheezy.
[*] Note: please also fix the typo in "MuliArch"!
Toomas Tamm
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