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> Hello all, |
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> I'd like to see if I can install gambas into my 32-bit chroot jail. It's |
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> masked out of everything but vanilla x86 systems, which I think is what I |
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> have in /mnt/gentoo32 (the chroot jail). |
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> Using emerge to install gambas brings all sorts of other things, including a |
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> duplicate xorg-x11 installation, which seems a bit excessive to me. How do |
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> I go about emerging into /mnt/gentoo32 with full X functionality etc, but |
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> without all the baggage? Perhaps someone's already done this and can advise |
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> me. |
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A year ago I made a chroot to run gnucash in. I just did an emerge in the |
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chroot and made all of xorg - ate the compile time and disk space. You just |
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need the Xclient libraries, but it wasn't worth the effort to figure out |
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what could be pruned. |
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To run gnucash I start an sshd service in the chroot listening on port 2232 |
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( and leave it running indefinitely). SSHD is configured to do X forwarding. |
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You do NOT start the X server in the chroot. |
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In 64 bit I created a /home/me/home32 directory in my 64 bit home directory |
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/home/me. Then I made /home available to the chroot. |
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As per the the 32 bit chroot instructions I created a user id for myself that |
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matches the 64 bit UID with home directory /home/me/home32. |
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I also had to set up the ssh keys, known hosts files, etc. |
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Then I use the command |
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ssh -X -p2232 localhost |
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to connect to the chroot |
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and execute gnucash. |
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I have discovered that not all X clients are happy to talk to an X server that |
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is running on a machine with a different word size. This is not chroot |
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specific and it affects both 32 bit client to 64 bit server and 64 bit client |
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to 32 bit server. My short list, from experience is |
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gnome xterm - OK |
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emacs - dies on first mouse click |
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xeyes - OK |
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gnucash - spews a steady stream of X errors/warnings, but does its thing. |
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(sometimes you are lucky) |
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wine - dies on startup IRCC |
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So you roll the dice with gambas. |
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If any X perts can explain how to overcome this, I'd like to know. I vaguely |
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recall looking briefly and deciding that each client had to be modified. |
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Perhaps VNC would work better than X through ssh. Anybody have any experience? |
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> I don't really understand properly how chroots work, and in particular |
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> whether it's possible to install, e.g., gambas in /mnt/gentoo32 and have it |
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> use libraries etc. elsewhere. Or do I really have to install a virtually |
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> complete gentoo 32-bit system to enable it to work? |
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> -- |
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> Rgds |
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> Peter Humphrey |
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> Linux Counter 5290, August 1993. |
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Dave F |
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