Thread: Howto: running PRIVOXY and other debian arm binaries
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neiljerram is offline neiljerram
2006-01-24 , 13:27
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Originally Posted by fpp
Recently I needed PRIVOXY badly and got the unported debian ARM binary to run on the 770, using bits and pieces of info from the maemo wiki and the ITT forums.

I summed it up in a somewhat lenghty entry in the Wiki :

http://www.internettablettalk.com/wi...unning_PRIVOXY

It can also serve as a template to install other (non-GUI) apps in a similar way.

Enjoy,
fp
Many thanks, very useful.

Suppose one wanted to install under /var/lib/install as other stuff is: would I work just to chroot before using dpkg -X ?

And would that also update dpkg's database of installed packages correctly?

Regards,
Neil