Thread: New N900 user - please help
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2015-01-13 , 23:43
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I have such a love hate relationship with Linux! Here are my experiences trying to install flasher and flash the N900 on Ubuntu 14.10 in case they're useful to other noobs:

I did two things wrong here. First, I used the wrong version of flasher, which gave this error message:

Code:
ERROR: APE algorithm has to be provided to flash all the subimages
After some searching on the forum, I unpacked the .tar.gz file for the correct version of flasher (3.5) and tried to run the binary with ./flasher-3.5 but BASH was giving this unhelpful error:

Code:
bash: ./flasher-3.5: No such file or directory
This happened becuase i'm on a 64 bit machine. Googling will probably tell you to install ia32-libs, but this doesn't work on newer versions of Debian/Ubuntu. These two commands worked for me:

Code:
sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib # complains about unmet dependencies
sudo apt-get -f install
I then:
  • Flashed eMMC
  • Flashed rootFS

...everything appears to be working!

Thank you both for your help today, that article had lots of interesting stuff in it.

CSSU tomorrow, then I'll go exploring!

Sam
 

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