Has anyone tried installing scratchbox on fedora. I was following the post here:
http://www.progbox.co.uk/wordpress/?p=453

and I get the following when I run the script:
E: This script requires dpkg to install .deb files.

I yum installed debootstrap, but that didnt make any difference.

debootstrap (never remember how it's spelled lol) will grab a complete debian system and put it in a directory.
Then you use chroot to change the current running process root (/) to this directory. At this moment, you run a debian system on your fedora kernel.
And then, you should be able to install everything as if had a debian system.

But I've never tried on fedora. I've used debootstrap several times from debian to debian, works like a charm.

To use debootstrap on a system that has no dpkg binary, you need to tell deboostrap which architecture you want:
su
yum install debootstrap
mkdir /path/debian_testing
debootstrap i386 testing /path/debian_testing http://ftp.debian.org/debian/
echo "proc /path/debian_testing/proc proc none 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
mount proc /path/debian_testing/proc -t proc
cp /etc/hosts /path/debian_testing/etc/hosts

chroot /path/debian_testing /bin/bash

and now you should be in a minimal (100MBytes) debian system

Thanks, but whats "testing", it says
No such script: /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts/testing


for this:
debootstrap --arch i386 testing /home/bluehash/debian_test

I added the --arch

the /scripts directory has files for breezy, gutsy....

I tried
debootstrap --arch i386 gutsy /home/bluehash/debian_test

Now when I run the script, it says the same thing. Am I doing anything wrong here?

I've installed both scratchbox and the maemo SDK using the scripts provided on maemo.org (http://maemo.org/development/sdks/ma...inook_sdk.html) on my Fedora 7 system. The scripts took care of all debian stuff.

I can now run the maemo_hello.c program mentioned on the silentk::cbx33 site although maemo itself does not run properly, I get a lot of qemu errors and the desktop does not appear

I could also do the same on Fedora7, but since I switched to Fedora8, I'm unable to install it.

Hum you could have said this..

I didn't even know their script embedded debootstrap..

I wiped Fedora 8 from my laptop and installed Ubuntu 7.10 to see if the SDK will work properly there. And it does without errors. Somehow the SDK is not Fedora friendly....too bad.