Hello all,

I want to run a .deb file written for x64 processors on my Raspberry Pi 5, which I run Linux on. Unfortunately I don't know a damn thing about computers and need step-by-step instructions. I have tried and failed to pay computer technicians online to
help me because most of them don't work in Linux.


Thanks,
Matt Timpson 🍉


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From: Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org>
Date: On Monday, April 7th, 2025 at 09:21
Subject: Re: Please register an account for me
To: Matt Timpson <mdtymczyszyn@proton.me>
CC: wiki@debian.org <wiki@debian.org>

On Mon, Apr 07, 2025 at 11:46:37AM +0000, Matt Timpson wrote:

Hello,

I've tried to emulate a .deb file written for x64 processors on my Raspberry Pi 5, but I can't figure it out. I can't even pay someone
to help me because most people don't work in Linux.

The wiki is a place for Debian developers and community members to
write documentation related to Debian. It's not really a place to ask questions if you're asking for support.

If you're looking for assistance with using Debian, there are several
better places:

* the debian-user mailing list: debian-user@lists.debian.org
* IRC: #debian on irc.debian.org
* forums: https://forums.debian.net/

Also, do you have a policy on AI scraping your community-run
encyclopedia? I would love to ask a robot for help rather than take
time out of real people's lives.

Many of the morons running crawlers for AI training have been killing
sites like the Debian wiki with uncontrolled crawling, ignoring
information like robots.txt. We've had to block a lot of sites and
networks because of this appalling selfish behaviour.

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Hello,


Raspberry pi uses arm and aarch64 (arm64). This is not x64 like Intel or
AMD.

You have to recompile if possible otherwise you cant use this.
A other try can be kvm but I have not try to emulate a x64 on a aarch64 cpu.

Good luck and best regards,



Am 07.04.25 um 18:06 schrieb Matt Timpson:

Hello all,

I want to run a .deb file written for x64 processors on my Raspberry Pi 5, which I run Linux on. Unfortunately I don't know a damn thing about computers and need step-by-step instructions. I have tried and failed to pay computer technicians online to

help me because most of them don't work in Linux.

Thanks,
Matt Timpson 🍉

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From: Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org>
Date: On Monday, April 7th, 2025 at 09:21
Subject: Re: Please register an account for me
To: Matt Timpson <mdtymczyszyn@proton.me>
CC: wiki@debian.org <wiki@debian.org>

On Mon, Apr 07, 2025 at 11:46:37AM +0000, Matt Timpson wrote:

Hello,

I've tried to emulate a .deb file written for x64 processors on my
Raspberry Pi 5, but I can't figure it out. I can't even pay someone
to help me because most people don't work in Linux.

The wiki is a place for Debian developers and community members to
write documentation related to Debian. It's not really a place to ask
questions if you're asking for support.

If you're looking for assistance with using Debian, there are several
better places:

* the debian-user mailing list: debian-user@lists.debian.org
* IRC: #debian on irc.debian.org
* forums: https://forums.debian.net/

Also, do you have a policy on AI scraping your community-run
encyclopedia? I would love to ask a robot for help rather than take
time out of real people's lives.

Many of the morons running crawlers for AI training have been killing
sites like the Debian wiki with uncontrolled crawling, ignoring
information like robots.txt. We've had to block a lot of sites and
networks because of this appalling selfish behaviour.

--
Steve McIntyre 93sam@debian.org
Debian wiki admin - wiki.debian.org wiki@debian.org

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Hi Matt,

take a look at this link:

https://community.fydeos.io/t/topic/26128[1]

Maybe it will help you.

And please note: You need packages fro arm or arm64, packages for amd64 do not work on
this hardware.

But the good thing: Debian has an arm port and most packages are ready-for-install available.

Thank you very much, Debian!!!

Best

Hans

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[1] https://community.fydeos.io/t/topic/26128

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<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
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<body><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Hi Matt, </p>
<br /><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">take a look at this link: </p>
<br /><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;"><a href="https://community.fydeos.io/t/topic/26128">https://community.fydeos.io/t/topic/26128</a></p>
<br /><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Maybe it will help you.</p>
<br /><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">And please note: You need packages fro arm or arm64, packages for amd64 do not work on this hardware.</p>
<br /><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">But the good thing: Debian has an arm port and most packages are ready-for-install available. </p>
<br /><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Thank you very much, Debian!!!</p>
<br /><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Best</p>
<br /><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Hans</p>
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Matt Timpson wrote:

Hello all,

I want to run a .deb file written for x64 processors on my Raspberry Pi 5, which I run Linux on. Unfortunately I don't know a damn thing about computers and need step-by-step instructions. I have tried and failed to pay computer technicians online to

help me because most of them don't work in Linux.


Best to start by telling us which .deb package you want to run
and where it comes from.

-dsr-

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And also check this link: https://pi-apps.io/install-app/install-box64-on-linux-arm-device/[1]

You may also want to just `apt install box64` since according to https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/box64 it's in Debian testing.


Stefan

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Hi Matt, all

Am 07.04.2025 um 18:54 schrieb basti:

Hello,

Raspberry pi uses arm and aarch64 (arm64). This is not x64 like Intel or
AMD.

From what I just learnt, Box64 (mentioned in this mail#s subject) is
actually an emulator to run on arm and then used to run x86 code.

So, my question here is what does your Raspberry run as an operating system?

Am 07.04.25 um 18:06 schrieb Matt Timpson:

Hello all,

I want to run a .deb file written for x64 processors on my Raspberry
Pi 5, which I run Linux on.

Then, we'll get to the next step -- have you already installed Box64 on it?

and then, I guess, the fun starts :-)

Cheers,

Arno

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Matt Timpson <mdtymczyszyn@proton.me> wrote:

Hello all,

I want to run a .deb file written for x64 processors on my Raspberry
Pi 5, which I run Linux on.

You don't say which version of which linux you use. Most people with R
Pis run Raspberry Pi OS, which is derived from Debian but is not
Debian. If you run that you may be better asking on a Raspberry Pi
forum.

Your subject hints that you want to use box64 to accomplish your goal.
If so you may want to look at such web sites as https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-x64/ or https://pi-apps.io/install-app/install-box64-on-raspberry-pi/ or https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=336742

This mailing list is for users of the debian operating system itself,
not for derivatives such as R Pi OS or Ubuntu etc etc.

Unfortunately I don't know a damn thing
about computers and need step-by-step instructions. I have tried and
failed to pay computer technicians online to help me because most of
them don't work in Linux.

Thanks,
Matt Timpson 🍉

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Matt Timpson wrote:

You seem to have forgotten to copy the debian-user list, so I
have helpfully corrected that for you.

(Questions on the list are not an invitation to a personalized
support experience. Everyone is a volunteer here, including
you.)

Hello,

I bought a book scanner from and downloaded the Linux version of the software from this website:

https://www.czur.com/support/et24_25pro

Thanks,
Matt Timpson 🍉

Have you tried asking them for support? They have a support
email address at the bottom of that webpage, and presumably you
have paid them money.

Failing that, have you checked to see whether xsane supports
your new scanner?

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Greg Wooledge [2025-04-09 15:41:05] wrote:

On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 19:15:31 +0000, Matt Timpson wrote:

I'd also like to know what "numpy" is and what is does.

apt-cache show python3-numpy
or do a Google/Duckduckgo/Bing search for it.

My N�1 search engine nowadays is Wikipedia (protected from ads and SEO madness), and here again it offers one of the best answers to the
question of what is "numpy".


Stefan

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Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

My N�1 search engine nowadays is Wikipedia (protected from ads and SEO madness), and here again it offers one of the best answers to the
question of what is "numpy".

In this context, it's probably enough to say that numpy is a numeric
library which will be part of the software used to post process Matt's
scanned images. If he ever gets that far with this X-Y problem.

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Hello,

I wanted to follow up on some problems I had running an x64 emulator on a Raspberry Pi. I've tried paying for computer help, but no one I spoke to worked with Linux.


Thanks,
Matt Timpson 🍉


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On Wednesday, 9 April 2025 at 15:15, Matt Timpson <mdtymczyszyn@proton.me> wrote:

Certainly. I used this command:

cd /opt/scanner

and get this error when I follow it up with either

box64 scanner

or

box64 run_scanner.sh

I'd also like to know what "numpy" is and what is does.

Thanks,
Matt Timpson 🍉

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On Wednesday, 9 April 2025 at 03:22, Jonathan Dowland jmtd@debian.org wrote:

On Tue Apr 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM BST, Matt Timpson wrote:

Original error was: Cannot dlopen("/opt/scanner/numpy.core._multiarray_umath.so"/0x604e20ac, 2)

[6369] Failed to execute script main

Can I ask what this means?

That most likely is you trying to indirectly run an executable in x86_64 format on the Pi which is arm64. You haven't shared what command you
ran to provoke this error, but it looks like you need to inject box64 somewhere in the execution path.

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Matt Timpson wrote:

Hello,

I wanted to follow up on some problems I had running an x64 emulator on a Raspberry Pi. I've tried paying for computer help, but no one I spoke to worked with Linux.

You can ask specific questions here, or on the Box mailing list
(or on the KVM or QEMU lists, if applicable.) Everyone on these
lists is a volunteer, mostly users with some devs.

If you want to pay for support with Debian, there is a list of
consultants at https://www.debian.org/consultants/

-dsr-

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