Problem with .deb packages

[Michael P.]

Bruno Deligny Wrote:

> 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.

Would this be worthy of a bugzilla report?
I encountered this too when I tried to install DMD using the .deb packages.