Activating a module [SOLVED]

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Activating a module [SOLVED]

Post#1 by ppb222 » 08 Nov 2012, 17:06

I'm struggling to install GDB in Porteus. Following steps in the article "Understanding Module Creation and Manipulation: Two Case Studies" I have downloaded the GDB package with all dependencies, and converted them to Porteus modules, but I'm not able to run it:
guest@porteus:/mnt/sdb1/modules$ activate libreadline6-6.2-i386-1.xzm
guest@porteus:/mnt/sdb1/modules$ gdb
gdb: error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Am I missing something?
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Re: Activating a module

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Re: Activating a module

Post#3 by fanthom » 08 Nov 2012, 18:42

@ppb222

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libreadline6-6.2-i386-1.xzm
does not sound like slackware package (slack has i486 arch as minimum) and is probably coming from other distro. please stick to packages from slackware-13.37 repo for porteus-1.x line if that's possible.
moreover:

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cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
this line tells me that you are using 64bit edition (it would be handy if each user could fill in his profile with porteus arch/version he is using) so please use 64bit packages or setup multilib environment as per FAQ answer 9.

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Re: Activating a module

Post#4 by ppb222 » 10 Nov 2012, 09:49

Thank you, guys. I wasn't able to find the GDB package from PPM, that's why I had downloaded it from the Debian repository. Eventually I used Google to find the right Slackware package. I think that PPM should indicate somehow that Debian packages are "less compatible".

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Re: Activating a module [SOLVED]

Post#5 by brokenman » 10 Nov 2012, 22:07

Thanks. Will add a clearer message that debian packages are not fully supported in PPM. Support for debian is a work in progress (read headache) but it should slowly mature and become more useful.
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