On Sat, Apr 19, 2025 at 11:06:48AM +0000, Matt Timpson wrote:
Hello,
I know of the index at https://www.debian.org/consultants/, but the first person I reached out to says they only work for businesses, not individuals.
Hi Matt,
Back to basics: your email is a Proton Mail - that gives us no indication
of where you might be from / which country you need help from.
Your original emails suggest you wanted Box64 - specifically an x86-64 emulation to run 64 bit Intel/AMD binaries - to run "something".
That was later clarified to running a book scanner - and you were advised
to contact the commercial company you bought it from. Someone suggested xscanner might be appropriate. Did you try installing xscanner for arm64?
Is this the only application that you want to run on a Raspberry Pi?
If you're running a Pi 5, then you're almost certainly running Raspberry
Pi OS. What does /etc/os-release or /etc/debian_version show?
You're very unlikely to get commercial support from a Debian consultant
for something extremely niche: the folk on this list can possibly help
further
"If I were you, I wouldn't start from here" - this might all have been
easier on an Intel/AMD 64 bit desktop/laptop - what's the motivation
for using a Raspberry Pi 5? [I'm assuming low power/always on or some
such.] It's also possible that you won't get better help on Raspberry
Pi lists too, depending how unusual your requirements are.
As ever, we don't have a crystal ball - the more information you can
give to help those of us reading the list, the better.
All the very best, as ever,
Andrew Cater
(
amacater@debian.org)
Thanks,
Matt Timpson 🍉
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From: Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>
Date: On Wednesday, 16 April 2025 at 09:53
Subject: Re: Can you help me run Box64 on my Raspberry Pi 5?
To: Matt Timpson <mdtymczyszyn@proton.me>
CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
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/
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