opkg->deb

[Rask Ingemann Lambertsen]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 09:48:42AM +0100, kimaidou wrote:
> Hi all
> I think this idea is great. I am using SHR from the start, and now I
> installed Hackable 1 on my SDcard (I need a PIM solution). So I miss the
> goodies in www.opkg.org.

   I've installed both usbmode and linball[1] on Debian from the .ipk package.
You need to pass --force-architecture and perhaps --force-depends to dpkg.
It will probably work fine for many packages.

[1] Hangs on exit without -n to turn off sound (which doesn't work anyway).

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