Re: Question about dpkg architecture

Hi, If you want to compile your packages specifically for your architecture, you need to use apt-build. This utility runs like apt-get but instead of just installing the debian package is first downloads the source, compiles the program specific to your architecture and then installs the newly c

Question about dpkg architecture

Hi there, here is a Debian newbie. I installed woody on my Pentium II several weeks ago. But I found every package I created by 'apt-get source -b ' is architecture i386 (*.i386.deb). The command 'dpkg --print-install-architecture' returns i386 too. From the manpage of dpkg, I think it is beca