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Quote:

Originally Posted by BanditRider

Karel,
You are trying to install the file with the application manager, right?

I first tried to install it with the application manager, but although the repository updated fine, there was no sign of Maemopad+. I then proceeded to download the file from the Garage, but my 770 only offered me to download the file, claiming it did not know what to do with it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by fpp

Have you lost only the mime type for .deb files, or all of them ?

It is said in the home of the brave that the following incantations may retrieve them :

update-mime-database /usr/share/mime
update-desktop-database /usr/share/applications

I just did it, but other than that *.png is not recognized (which I really can't be bothered about right now), the first command seems to write its configuration stuff pretty normally. The second command gives no feedback at all. If nothing else, it brushed up my gainrooting skills (which you failed to say was necessary :) ).

This is now rapidly becoming seriously weird: I then went to the newest entry in Planet Maemo (and BTW, will someone please do something about that annoying search-box? It gets in the way on the 770), the Zip-program, clicked on the *.armel.deb file and the download manager offered me the choice to install it, using Application Manager!

Houzee! I thought, but alas, when trying the installation file for Maemopad+ (the one in the Garage), I was back to an unrecognized file as before.

Update: Two seconds before I hit send for this message, I tried one last time with the *.armel.deb file I had saved on my 770, and this time my 770 admitted it knew it was an installable file! Maemopad+ subsequently installed as if nothing had happened.

But I still can't install the maemopad+ file from the Garage. Go figure...

nevermind... I did not read the second page and my post was irrelevant.

David

I meant from the application manager - menu - Package - Install from file.

That's the proper way to install .deb packages.

Quote:

Originally Posted by djs_tx

stupid question, but have you tried downloading the file to your card, opening the application manager and then selecting Package -> install from file from the menu?

What happens when you point to the downloaded .deb with that command?
David

I didn't work, but now has worked. I'm assuming fpp's advice (to use the update commands for the mime and applications database) must have done the trick. Although with some delay, because the first time I tried it, right after issuing the commands, I got the result I had become used to.

But, as I said above, at least with a locally copied installation file, I have now been able to install the single most innovative application of the 770 (but, to put things in perspective, I still think the Newton's Notes app is much better :D ).