[Announce] Faster Application Manager (Maemo5)
 

Faster Application Manager tries to be what the name says, a fast-to-use graphical front-end for apt-get, written from scratch and optimized for the N900/Maemo5. It's WAY faster than the built-in manager, allowing multiple selections before time-consuming operations, etc, etc...

It can:
- Install, upgrade and remove packages (select multiple before performing operations!)
- Filter packages quickly by category or status
- Sort packages (by name, date or size), search packages, blacklist packages
- Get changelogs for packages from maemo.org
- Optionally handle ALL packages, not just user/ categories
- Manage repositories
- Works both in landscape and portrait mode

It can't:
- Integrate into the system's auto-update functionality or Ovi store

I haven't heard of anyone messing up their system with this, so I'd consider it "relatively safe" to use... All the standard warnings of extras-devel in general still apply, though.

http://maemo.org/packages/view/fapman/

NOTES:
- Make sure your network connection is online or your operations will fail
- A log file of the last operations is available at /root/.fapman/lastlog.txt (also accessible through the menu). See the log if you receive error messages.

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Re: [Announce] Faster Application Manager
 

"fapman"... Kinda suspicious name, dont you think? ;)
I'll try it out now :)

Re: [Announce] Faster Application Manager
 

lol @ appname

but you're right, the app manager is very slow, even more on PR1.2..
gotta try this as well.

Re: [Announce] Faster Application Manager
 

Tried upgrading two packages, got "Error Exit code 100, status 0"
Any ideas?

EDIT: Otherwise looks great, portrait mode supported, search could be better(should filter out entries IMO). It's extremely quick too! (As advertised)

Re: [Announce] Faster Application Manager
 

Make sure you are connected to network before starting the installation/upgrade. The app currently can't enable the connection by itself and will fail.

Re: [Announce] Faster Application Manager
 

this app uses rootsh? Fapman will not launch as I use rootsh 1.8 and rootsh is now disabled. So it fails to even launch into the app.

Re: [Announce] Faster Application Manager
 

Yeah, rootsh is used to launch from the .desktop file as root. Version 1.5 works, but I guess I'll have to find an alternative method then.

You can alternatively start the application from the terminal with

Re: [Announce] Faster Application Manager
 

How is this used? I am trying to run from the newly installed icon but a message about rootsh comes up and it closes...

Re: [Announce] Faster Application Manager
 

is there any way we could natively use this as an ovi store activated App Manager?

Re: [Announce] Faster Application Manager
 

fapman, eh? Coding late at night? ;p *runs*

Drop a file in /etc/sudoers.d and run update-sudoers in the postinst. Run it in the postrm, too, if you feel the need.