Thread: Navit on N900
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Originally Posted by dragonteeth View Post
I'm afraid I'm a bit of a n00b and my learning curve is very steep. I do try to read things before asking for help and I've managed reasonably well so far, but this one's got me. The more I read about the different installations the more confused I'm getting.

If I understand it at all, I need to install the "libgarmin" before I can install the main "Navit" application, and I also need a map package. Is that right?

The problem is that I'm seeing several references of places to go to get the packages and some of them are old ones and some of them don't seem to work at all.

I did find this page...

http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/navit/

But that doesn't seem to be quite right, (maybe it doesn't have the "lib" package) but I'm not sure how to fix that or even if it is still the correct current version.

I've found this one...

http://maps5.navit-project.org/

For the maps (I think), and at least I have found my home etc.

I can't find the "lib" things (libgarmin?), is there an alternative lib or am I missing something?

Would someone be kind enough to point me to the right things, and give me some tips on getting it working smoothly?

Many thanks

Charles
Hello Charles,

please have a look at this page where I summarized my installation of navit on n900. Sorry, it is available in german language only, but should be quite self-explaining.

The place to get the maps is right, I recommend you to download everything you need until 1st of April, because there will be a licence-change in the OSM-Project which could cause some gaps in the map- so it is save to use the "old" but complete card for a while until everything is mapped under the new licence.

Please feel free to ask if you are facing further problems.

CU Michael