[lug] apt-get: How To Use on Loopback Mounted Ubuntu Hosted on Fedora?

[Quentin Hartman]

You might be able to do something with qemu to run the filesystem you have
mounted and just use the nromal tools to do it.


On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 2:04 PM, <stimits at comcast.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> My development machine is fedora, x86_64. I have a loopback mounted ext4
> filesystem for an embedded ARMv7 ubuntu system. I have set up a working
> cross compile for not just the kernel, but any code or package, without
> special setup.
>
> The trouble is that I can't update the loopback ubuntu system, nor add
> packages which were added on the actual embedded system. Since I don't know
> ubuntu very well, and especially am new at apt and apt-get, I'm looking for
> ideas to get my x86_64 fedora system to run apt-get on my non-x86 system in
> a "semi-chroot" way. I need a cross-apt similar to my cross-compile gcc.
> Anyone here have any ideas about how or if this can be accomplished to have
> my x86_64 update and modify my ARMv7 filesystem?
>
> Thanks
>
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