patching pose for Ubuntu 8.04

2008-10-23T20:09:00+02:00

I recently found my old Palm IIIe in one of my "old-hardware"-boxes, and wanted to write some programs for it (coding nostalgia :-)). Unfortunately the ubuntu package is broken and every time i started it i got a "hardware exception #3"

not so funny

after some googling i found out that i'm not the only one and there is a ubuntu bugreport including a patch

i could not get the posted dsc file to work so i searched a bit and found out how to apply the patch manually

first fetch the sourcecode of the pose package

apt-get source pose

then change into the directory

cd pose-3.5

and copy the download patch to debian/patches

than edit the debian/patches/00list and append the filename of the patch (50_gcc41.dpatch)

change the version of the package using

dch -i

and buidl the deb files with

dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -b

then change to the parent directory and install the newly build deb files using

sudo dpkg -i pose_3.5-9.1ubuntu2_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i pose-doc_3.5-9.1ubuntu2_all.deb

é voilà! - a working pose

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patching pose for Ubuntu 8.04