<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>You can also use the "force architecture" option:</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: 15px; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; ">dpkg -i --force-architecture nameofpackage.deb</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">... But if you cam get it from the ubuntu apt repositories, that's even better!</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">Mike, N0SO</span></font></div><div>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Feb 24, 2011, at 4:30 PM, Dan Smith <<a href="mailto:dsmith@danplanet.com">dsmith@danplanet.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div><span></span></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite"><span>Any danger we can have this compiled for a modern computer rather than</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>one from the previous century?</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>First, it's Python, so there's no arch-specific code in there anyway. </span><br><span>Second, Steve has been putting in a lot of effort to get real packages </span><br><span>into Debian so that you can get it on sparc if you want :)</span><br><span></span><br><span>-- </span><br><span>Dan Smith</span><br><span><a href="http://www.danplanet.com">www.danplanet.com</a></span><br><span>KK7DS</span><br><span></span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>drats_users mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:drats_users@intrepid.danplanet.com">drats_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</a></span><br><span><a href="http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/drats_users">http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/drats_users</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>