Re: Important packages that are broken ia64

On Tue, 2023-08-08 at 23:27 +0000, Pedro Miguel Justo wrote:
> 
> > On Aug 7, 2023, at 01:03, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > # wget http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20220510T034305Z/pool/main/g/git/git-man_2.36.1-1_all.deb
> > # dpkg -i git-man_2.36.1-1_all.deb
> > 
> > Then install git normally with apt-get.
> > 
> 
> Thanks Adrian.
> 
> From there, all good till the grub-install step, which failed:
> 
> pmsjt@itanium:~/grub$ sudo /usr/local/sbin/grub-install /dev/sda
> Installing for ia64-efi platform.
> /usr/local/sbin/grub-install: warning: cannot open directory `/usr/local/share/locale': No such file or directory.

Unless you care about localization (which you hopefully don't during debugging),
you can safely ignore this warning.

> /usr/local/sbin/grub-install: error: efibootmgr: not found.

Well, you need to install efibootmgr. Not sure why it isn't installed on your
machine in the first place since it's needed for grub-install to update the
boot manager settings in firmware and create the "grub" entry.

Just install it with:

# apt install efibootmgr

Adrian

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