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Originally Posted by williamrochira
@NiLuJe @knc1
Thanks guys! I'm glad you're around to stop people like me screwing up our Kindles ;-)
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You are welcome.
It is also nice to find someone that asks when they first run into a problem rather than waiting to post when it is too late.
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Originally Posted by williamrochira
Could either of you give me a link to the latest "threads on how to rip stuff out of Debian armel" ? Because that would be a lifesaver, so many debian packages I want!
Thanks again,
Will.
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Ripping Debian ARMel packages - -
Most of that was done by twobob, but is pretty well scattered around the forum inside of his various posts.
His work does include scripting to determine the dependencies of a binary.
This process is limited to software from a fairly old Debian release that is compatible with the very old system libraries that are pre-installed on your Kindle.
(Still, that is many thousands of packages)
Ripping Debian ARMhf packages - -
Takes bow, pats self on back...
I have the done the basics of that, but am a long way from finished due to lack of time.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=240616
Which is a set of the **most recent** Linux system libraries.
The advantage of this project direction, is that it allows the Kindle to concurrently support more than one set of Linux system libraries (only two at the moment, but it is not limited to that).
I.E: Both (Amazon age) ancient applications and very recent applications.
My base installation includes very recent scripting engines (Busybox ash and Lua(Jit) ) but the only scripting is what is hinted at in my notes (and twobob's work).
The time and effort of making up "end-user" scripted tools is a large item.
If the world waits for me, we may all die of old age before I finish that on my own.
Ah, but I can probably find time to help guide someone else in that work.
The same for other members here -
They "know the answers" but do not have time to do the work themselves.
But they are all quick to respond with answers to problems posted by others.
I'll start a different thread for this topic -
If you find time to add to it (even just adding good "how do I" questions) - that would be great.
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Do not be intimidated -
twobob started with hardly knowing more than the name of the OS: "Linux" and became one of our most prolific contributors in a short amount of time.