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2009-10-18 , 23:34
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Originally Posted by ewan View Post
The other option, and what I've gone for on top of a Fedora system, is to install Ubuntu in a VM and use the provided scripts to install onto that. If you then SSH into the VM you can have it forward the X traffic back to a copy of Xephyr running on the host.

Aside from giving the SDK an Ubuntu/Debian style environment it neatly contains it and avoids having to run the installer scripts as root on your actual system.
Ah yes, good point. Then the user can also run a 32-bit environment as host OS instead of 64-bit with 32-bit libraries.

In your case (RPM-based distribution) there is also Alien and this concerts .deb to .rpm, and vice versa.

I vaguely remember there is a way to get a full Debian chroot in Gentoo using Portage, and FreeBSD Ports Collection.

After SDK is installed the user could just move /path/to/chroot/debian/scratchbox out of the chroot into host /scratchbox. Although some stuff then must be copied (and probably ported) over as well such as /etc/init.d/scratchbox-core
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