Some time ago, I moved from 32bit debian to 64bit debian on my notebook. So far, having configured flash and installed firefox from ubuntu, I haven’t run into any problems. Until I tried to run Padict (Japanese dictionary for palms) under pose .. there is no pose package for amd64! And it’s not so easy to compile either.

So now there is. The creation was relatively straightforward, first I downloaded i386 versions of pose and recursively all its dependencies that aren’t architecture-independent from packages.debian.org. That’s: pose (3.5-9.1), libdrm2 (2.3.1-1), libexpat1 (2.0.1-4), libfltk1.1 (1.1.9-6), libfontconfig1 (2.6.0-1), libfreetype6 (2.3.7-2), libgcc1 (1:4.3.2-1), libgl1-mesa-glx (7.0.3-6), libjpeg62 (6b-14), libpng12-0 (1.2.27-2), libstdc++6 (4.3.2-1), libx11-6 (2:1.1.5-2), libxau6 (1:1.0.3-3), libxcb-xlib0 (1.1-1.1), libxcb1 (1.1-1.1), libxdamage1 (1:1.1.1-4), libxdmcp6 (1:1.0.2-3), libxext6 (2:1.0.4-1), libxfixes3 (1:4.0.3-2), libxft2 (2.1.12-3), libxinerama1 (2:1.0.3-2), libxrender1 (1:0.9.4-2), libxxf86vm1 (1:1.0.2-1), zlib1g (1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12). And then I only extracted them (for foo in *deb; do dpkg-deb -X $foo .; done), renamed lib and usr/lib to lib32 and usr/lib32 respectively, removed crud from usr/share, renamed the binary, manpage and menu entry to pose32, created a Makefile, ran dh_make -n -c artistic -s -p pose32, edited debian/control a bit and finaly typed debuild and waited :).

You still need pose-skins and a rom image. No, this version works, I see no reason to continually update it.