Thread: Android Possible on K4?
View Single Post
Old 12-06-2013, 12:23 PM   #14
icantbebothered
Penguin
icantbebothered ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.icantbebothered ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.icantbebothered ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.icantbebothered ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.icantbebothered ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.icantbebothered ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.icantbebothered ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.icantbebothered ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.icantbebothered ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.icantbebothered ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.icantbebothered ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
icantbebothered's Avatar
 
Posts: 1,017
Karma: 4742434
Join Date: Jul 2012
Device: Kindle Touch 5.3.2.1
Quote:
Originally Posted by TheArtfulDodger View Post
Hello, i:

You mentioned Debian and I just found a version of the program that is a port to Debian. Here's the description: "Sfrotz 0.02, an SDL-based port of Frotz to Debian Linux, by Aldo Cumani. Based on Frotz 2.40 by Stefan Jokisch and Windows Frotz by David Kinder. Supports Blorb graphics and sounds, and includes partial support for the Standard 1.1 extensions."

Does this sound to you like it might work? If so, my first question is whether or not there is a version of Debian that can be run from a CD/DVD, much like Ubuntu? I would very much like to make sure the program actually does what I hope it does on my desktop prior to loading on the Kindle.

Then, my next question will be: how does one load Debian onto the Kindle and then how does one load a program into that Debian on Kindle?

I realize some of this might be on this forum but I don't seem to have a lot of luck finding what I'm looking for.

Thanks for the information and in advance for any further information you can provide.

Sparky
You have to (from linux on a pc) debootstrap debian 7.2 into a .img, then put it on the USB stirage on your kindle. Dos1 made a handy script to mount and launch debian(dosowisko.net/kindle/debian). It expects the directory mnt/debian. More info on tis somewhere on the mobileread wiki.

Once debian is instaled and launched on your kindle, run apt-get install whatever. Debian ports you find outside of the debian repositories on't work due to a) architectures, and b) the kindle's cpu being niether 32x or 64x. Then you can use twobob's script to get the binary and libs of whatever program you installed, which will now run outside debian.



Alternatively , grab baf's port of gargoyle.
icantbebothered is offline   Reply With Quote