Installing/Updating on ARM64 (sakaki) prebuilt image

akrmn21 · n00b Joined: 06 Dec 2021 Posts: 6

Hi

Trying to install qemu (with emerge -a qemu), but it says:

akrmn21 · n00b Joined: 06 Dec 2021 Posts: 6

Also, here is my emerge --info:

alamahant · Advocate Joined: 23 Mar 2019 Posts: 3918

Hi
plz do NOT use the Sakaki image.
It is very obsolete.
Also it seems you are doing something odd with your emerge command

akrmn21 · n00b Joined: 06 Dec 2021 Posts: 6

Sorry I did a dump of a screen log, so the formatting is not ideal, but I did 'emerge -a1 portage'.

I will try with the 'v' flag, I guess it means verbose.

But I don't really want to reinstall a whole system...I just need qemu to run some amd64 things that dont compile on arm64.

akrmn21 · n00b Joined: 06 Dec 2021 Posts: 6

Correction: I did 'emerge -a1u portage', so I'll try without the u and a v instead.

fedeliallalinea · Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2021 4:34 pm Post subject:

Moved from Portage & Programming to Gentoo on ARM.
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2021 4:56 pm Post subject:

akrmn21,

Sakaki's binhost is now about 15 months old. You need to switch away from.using it and everything that goes with it.
With lots of things moving to EAPI 8, the upgrade will be slow.

The surest way is to switch to Gentoo as it was about September 2020 and do a number of upgrades, so that portage can resolve everything, step by step.
A reinstall will be faster but you will miss the learning experience.

What amd64 things don't compile on arm64?
You will hate QEMU when you get it going as its software emulation of the CPU. That makes it very slow.
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pingtoo · Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2021 6:19 pm Post subject:

Hi akrmn21,

GenPi64 successor for Sakaki's. I started with it an slowly update my system to a usable state.

I agree with alamahant and Naddy, Sakaki's is just outdated and not easy to use.

In the mean time if you just want a quick workaround you use this Readme referenced binhost to pull in qemu binary.

alamahant · Advocate Joined: 23 Mar 2019 Posts: 3918

My 2 cents:
If you want to start afresh and avoid cross-compile and qemu-chrrots,
the best way is first to install a binary distro's arm64 ie debian or devuan etc and then use that to install your arm64 Gentoo.
This is how I did it and it was easy-peasy..
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akrmn21 · n00b Joined: 06 Dec 2021 Posts: 6

OK no worries, I don't think I need qemu right now. But would be nice to have a solution for this or I may just create a new system in a chroot environment before loading in to it.

I hate to use binary packages, would want to compile everything from source.

alamahant · Advocate Joined: 23 Mar 2019 Posts: 3918

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2021 7:06 pm Post subject:

akrmn21,

It would be good to know what the original packages were that prompted your post.
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akrmn21 · n00b Joined: 06 Dec 2021 Posts: 6

No it was just some telegram CLI I pulled from github, but now I found another version that compiles on ARM, though just last week telegram blocked the old api that will require something else, but so far it's compiling.

I have some experience with building Linux distros, and maybe in the future I can contribute to an ARM64 OS. I used to make distros with full desktop environments, but I feel like making just a pure text based OS, since I can work on almost anything with the console, just the font size / resolution is always terrible with the typical installers, and I think I can make something more useable that people overlook. So I'm interested to see similar things that are being worked on, but that's an other topic...

Oh and to reply to almahunt, I'm sort of in a weird situation now where the raspi 4b is my only computer, so I just want to create a new root partition inside this with chroot then add that to my bootloader.

flysideways · Guru Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 491

https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspios_arm64/images/

If all you currently have is a Pi, and it is running some 32 bit distro, then that url is where you find the 64 bit version of Raspberry Pi OS. Running your Pi on that 64 bit RPiOS, you can natively install Gentoo to an sd card or usb device attached to your Pi. It just takes time, but so did a pc install 15 years ago.

There are plenty of choices.