cd devel
for i in /tmp/CellSDK-Devel-Fedora/x86_64/*.ppc.rpm; do alien –scripts $i; done
dpkg -i *.deb

cd extras
for i in /tmp/CellSDK-Extras-Fedora/x86_64/*.ppc.rpm; do alien –scripts $i; done
dpkg -i *.deb

Otherwise I was getting conflicts with the failing .ppc64.rpm

on intrepid I got alien failing with these complaints for i686 packages:

dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on librt.so.1 could be avoided if “debian/datamover-pcie-axon/usr/lib/libdm_pcie_axon.so.3.1″ were not uselessly linked against it (they use none of its symbols).
dh_gencontrol
dpkg-gencontrol: error: current host architecture ‘amd64′ does not appear in package’s architecture list (i386)
dh_gencontrol: command returned error code 65280

OK can you explain in which directory is the following script supposed to be saved.

cd open
for i in ../openrpm/*.rpm; do alien –scripts $i; done
dpkg -i *.deb

cd devel
for i in /tmp/CellSDK-Devel-Fedora/x86_64/*.rpm; do alien –scripts $i; done
dpkg -i *.deb

cd extras
for i in /tmp/CellSDK-Extras-Fedora/x86_64/*.rpm; do alien –scripts $i; done
dpkg -i *.deb

I have Core 2 Duo & plan to install i386 Ubuntu.

And your tutorial talks about mounting the iso image first. Where is that being used?

In the iso image that i have downloaded, there’s no folder called openrpms, though there is an rpms folder & separate folders for each of the architectures (x86, x86-64,…)

I am not able to follow hoe to proceed.

I am having some trouble installing SDK 3.0 on Ubuntu Fiesty Fawn. I followed your instructions, and encountered a few errors.

Firstly, when running alien, I get a bunch of warnings that look like this:

warning: /media/cell/x86/trace-cross-devel-3.0-38.noarch.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 9ac02885

Then, when running dpkg on the open directory, I failed to install one of the packages:

Unpacking numactl (from numactl_0.9.10-2_i386.deb) …
dpkg: error processing numactl_0.9.10-2_i386.deb (–install):
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libnuma.so.1′, which is also in package libnuma1
Errors were encountered while processing:
numactl_0.9.10-2_i386.deb

Also, I get this during dpkg in the devel directory:

Setting up cellide (3.0.0-19) …
chmod: cannot access `/opt/ibm/systemsim-cell/run/cell/linux’: No such file or directory

Anyway, I charged through. A quick glance at /opt/ibm/systemsim-cell/ and there is nothing there except an empty directory called images.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

spu-gcc-4.1.1-107.i686.rpm
spu-gcc-c++-4.1.1-107.i686.rpm
spu-gcc-debuginfo-4.1.1-107.i686.rpm
spu-gcc-fortran-4.1.1-107.i686.rpm

All others .rpm in ./openrpm are processed by alien without any complains, besides:
warning: ../openrpm/libspe2-cross-devel-2.2.0-91.noarch.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 77550217

Maybe it does not work on Debian/Testing and it must be an Debian/Ubuntu?!

Best!
Frank

Converting the .rpm from openrpm into .deb format succeeds for the most of them, but some fail by reporting:

Package build failed. Here’s the log:
dh_testdir
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
dh_clean -k -d
dh_installdirs
dh_installdocs
dh_installchangelogs
parsechangelog/debian: warning: debian/changelog(l7): badly formatted heading line
LINE: – Fix PR 38589 Generate inline code for int to double conversion by default,
parsechangelog/debian: warning: debian/changelog(l8): found change data where expected next heading or eof
LINE: and call libgcc function with -Os.
Can’t locate object method “init” via package “Dpkg::Changelog::Entry” at /usr/share/perl5/Dpkg/Changelog/Debian.pm line 258, line 8.
dpkg-parsechangelog: failure: changelog parser /usr/lib/dpkg/parsechangelog/debian gave error exit status 9
dh_installchangelogs: changelog parse failure
make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1
find: spu-gcc-4.1.1: No such file or directory

Ups! Any ideas?

x86, debian/testing, sdk3.0

Frank

thank you for this nice howto. I ran into some problems, first I got some problems combining the packages from apt-get and the ones from the CD. This is solved by only using packages from the CD.

The next problem is a bit more serious. Something wrong happened when fixcelldebsarch.sh tried to change directory, making it alphabetically deleting directories in my home directory. Fortunately they did not include any important files:) I would therefore suggest to use a more safe version, e.g.
#!/bin/bash
#~/bin/fixcelldebsarch.sh
origDir=`pwd`
for i in `ls -d */`
do
cd $i
sed -ie “s/Architecture: i386/Architecture: amd64/” debian/control
fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage
cd “$origDir”
done

came across your small article while looking for ways to install the Cell under Ubuntu, which works a treat btw. Just one thing, the first lines for converting the packages downloaded are only needed if you haven’t installed the cell-sdk under Gutsy or a Cell powered box, right?

It sort of confused me at first (am running Gutsy so I can cross compile to my PS3) and it may confuse some other people if they try the first conversion step and get some errors. Maybe it’d be a good idea to point out that the first package conversion is only needed if if you’re not running Gutsy or a Cell powered box.

cheers
James