vltreude
02-19-2007, 08:50 PM
Hello:
I'm trying to get started compiling something for the Nokia 770. I've downloaded the scratchbox files from maemo.org. I'm following the tutorial for version 2.2. I installed from tarballs since I'm on a Mandrake system, rather than debian. I can log into scratchbox but cannot extract the rootstrap, so I can't get very far. First of all, all of the URL's on any version of the tutorial seem to be broken, so I can't get the rootstrap that way. I did manage to download this file from somewhere on maemo:
Maemo_Dev_Platform_v2.2_armel-rootstrap.tgz
In scratchbox, I start sb-menu and get as far as the "extract rootstrap" step. I select the Nokia as the target and then the rootstrap file, which is in /scratchbox/packages, as explained in the tutorial. The message I get is: "Failed to extract rootstrap", followed by the full pathname of the file. It gives no reason for the error. Since scratchbox installes as a virtual distro, I thought there might be someting under its /var/logs directory, but no luck. I have the feeling that I have missed some step. Quite possibly the tutorial is incomplete, the writer making some assumption that a newbie wouldn't know. Please help!
Vaughn
I'm trying to get started compiling something for the Nokia 770. I've downloaded the scratchbox files from maemo.org. I'm following the tutorial for version 2.2. I installed from tarballs since I'm on a Mandrake system, rather than debian. I can log into scratchbox but cannot extract the rootstrap, so I can't get very far. First of all, all of the URL's on any version of the tutorial seem to be broken, so I can't get the rootstrap that way. I did manage to download this file from somewhere on maemo:
Maemo_Dev_Platform_v2.2_armel-rootstrap.tgz
In scratchbox, I start sb-menu and get as far as the "extract rootstrap" step. I select the Nokia as the target and then the rootstrap file, which is in /scratchbox/packages, as explained in the tutorial. The message I get is: "Failed to extract rootstrap", followed by the full pathname of the file. It gives no reason for the error. Since scratchbox installes as a virtual distro, I thought there might be someting under its /var/logs directory, but no luck. I have the feeling that I have missed some step. Quite possibly the tutorial is incomplete, the writer making some assumption that a newbie wouldn't know. Please help!
Vaughn