Any List Of Arm Packages Currently Available ?

[izzie]

I read that the pandora will be able to make use of debian arm packages, and tried to find a list of those packages to get an idea of what linux software will be most probably available right away for the pandora and what has little to no chance of running.

so far I failed to find a list, all I could find was debian packages search engine, any idea if such a list exists and if so, where to find it ?

 

[Sphinxter]

Close, it may run debian armel packages, 'nother animal entirely. How many depends on the package and a couple things yet to be sorted out.

 

[Holokauston]

Done some checking in the debian repos. I would say about 60% or more of debian packages are ported to armel and all major ones I can think of, most libs and so on.

 

[Kings]

I read that the pandora will be able to make use of debian arm packages, and tried to find a list of those packages to get an idea of what linux software will be most probably available right away for the pandora and what has little to no chance of running.

so far I failed to find a list, all I could find was debian packages search engine, any idea if such a list exists and if so, where to find it ?



Find the package you are looking for and check what architectures are available under the individual download. For example: Lenny->Editors->AbiWord and you see that there is an arm(and armel) .deb.

If anyone knows of a better way to search please share. And can someone confirm if the Pandora will use Debian or use Debian packages?

 

[ldesnogu]

You want packages? Look in the right place: http://mojo.handhelds.org/node/17
10,000 packages, is that enough for your needs?

 

[Parkydr]

so far I failed to find a list, all I could find was debian packages search engine, any idea if such a list exists and if so, where to find it ?



:huh: The link you give points to a page with "View package lists" is big letters on it.

 

[ldesnogu]

:huh: The link you give points to a page with "View package lists" is big letters on it.

Well it's sad but some people need explicit stuff and can't search by themselves. So here's the direct link http://packages.debian.org/stable/allpackages

 

[izzie]

:huh: The link you give points to a page with "View package lists" is big letters on it.

which leads to lists of packages available by debian distribution, not by architecture.

wine is featured on these 3 lists but is not available for ARM which you only discover after clicking on the package name.

what I'm looking for is a readily avaialble list of debian packages for ARM architecture.

Well it's sad but some people need explicit stuff and can't search by themselves.

/flameback on
sadly enough other people don't actually read and understand the question and neither do they check that the answer they provide is actually relevant to the question. seems they prefer assuming the other is the stupid one.
/flameback off

 

[ldesnogu]

Well it's sad but some people need explicit stuff and can't search by themselves.

/flameback on
sadly enough other people don't actually read and understand the question and neither do they check that the answer they provide is actually relevant to the question. seems they prefer assuming the other is the stupid one.
/flameback off

Indeed Sorry about that.

Anyway Debian itself has a very limited support for ARM hardware, see here: http://www.debian.org/ports/arm/

The Mojo link I provided above looks much more promising.

 

[Parkydr]

This file has the definitive answer.

 

[izzie]

Indeed Sorry about that.

The Mojo link I provided above looks much more promising.

no worries about that, no hard feelings here.

the mojo link seems indeed promising but still young and a work in progress.

Parkydr, you nailed it. thanks. that's what I was looking for.
for some reason, I limited my searches to the web, didn't come to my mind that such a list had to be available from a debian ARM mirror