Question:

When I try to run antelope_update on a 64-bit Linux system it cannot seem to find the patches on the BRTT web site, How do I patch my 64-bit Linux system?

Answer:

The URL for the patch directory is composed automatically by antelope_update from the host system info. On a 64-bit Linux system this ends up looking something like:

• http://www.brtt.com/patches/4.7/Linux_i686_64

The actual patch directory is named:

• http://www.brtt.com/patches/4.7/Linux_i686

so antelope_update does not find the patch directory with the _64 ending. The solution is to specify the right directory explicitly to antelope_update.

1. Browse to http://www.brtt.com/patches/
2. Find the directory which contains the patches you want;

there is a different directory for each architecture. For the 4.7 version of linux it is Linux_i686.

1. Run antelope_update with a URL argument at the end:

% antelope_update http://www.brtt.com/patches/Linux_i686

This will override the default automatic URL