Hi,
After an extensive search, I have procured a new n900, which I have been lusting over for more than a year. I went with the phone because of its open source nature and the ability to run full blown linux systems.

I am having few troubles.

App manager gets stuck at "installing application please wait" dialogue with any app from start. I read that I need to create a directory called opt and few other things, but for that too, I need the root access.

So I am not able to install any software through application manager.

apt-get update shows:

Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13 permission denied)

- Most probably which indicates app manager was quit within a download.

For this problem itself I am not able to install rootsh either.

Please guide me how to fix this.

P.S. extras repository is already added, and indicates my version is fremantle 1.3.

Click on this in maemo browser then: sudo gainroot, install fapman and never waste your time with app manager

Thanks, worked like a charm.

Have a luck at this if you are new to Maemo and N900

http://wiki.maemo.org/N900_The_Perfect_Setup

Hi Guys,

what does that mean "

"""" Patch to solve ext3 stuck problem"""""

what should I do if I get this error or Message while installing "Nitdroid Installer" ?

Please guide me.

Thank you,

Keith

hi,

can you please let me know ehat exactly the following means...
"""" Patch to solve ext3 stuck problem """"