Problem with .deb packages

Bruno Deligny bruno.deligny at gmail.com
Sun May 24 05:10:10 PDT 2009


Jesse Phillips a écrit :
> On Sat, 02 May 2009 14:57:43 +0200, Bruno Deligny wrote:
> 
>> When i try to install dmd1 or dmd2 on my ubuntu i386 with the deb
>> packages on http://www.digitalmars.com/d/download.html, it says "Error :
>> incorrect Architecture « amd64 »"
>>
>> The packages were built for the amd64 architecture.
> 
> I don't know how the packages were built for amd64, there only i386 
> packages. You have to provide dpkg the --force-architecture switch.
> dpkg --force-architecture -i ...deb

The packages are still broken. I dont know who did it but we can't let 
that on the website.

It's hard to persuade people to use D if packages are broken and there 
isn't Windows installer. I think a lot of people dont even try by seeing 
that.



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