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

[Quentin Hartman]

To that end: https://gist.github.com/bdsatish/7476239


On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Quentin Hartman <qhartman at gmail.com> wrote:

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