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qole | # 101 | 2009-06-02, 05:16 | Report

The dbus error is another thing to fix in the next version....

lemmyslender | # 102 | 2009-06-02, 20:05 | Report

Originally Posted by qole View Post

This sounds like a localization problem. Your tablet's locale probably doesn't align with Mer's locale. You have to change your locale as follows (from my blog):

Setting Locale:

Changing locales in Ubuntu is ugly, even "broken," as described here. This is what I do (from within the chroot) to get en_GB (my Maemo locale) set up in the chroot. From within the chroot:

Code:

cat /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED | grep en_GB
vim /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local
dpkg-reconfigure locales

Pardon my newbieness, "from within the chroot" means:
1) Run Mer, run Xterm, execute the commands
2) mount Easy-Mer partition in Maemo, Xterm, navigate to mount point, run commands?

I have tried using en_US in Mer, logout, restart Mer, no change in labels? Or am I missing another step?

With some more fiddling, I think I could get the standard Mer to work with Easy-Mer (I copied the scripts, and that worked, but there were some other problems) so for the time being, I think I'll just skip it and work with Easy-Mer.

OO3 fails to put an icon in the menu for me as well (apt-get install openoffice.org-gtk).

qole | # 103 | 2009-06-02, 21:03 | Report

Originally Posted by lemmyslender View Post

Pardon my newbieness, "from within the chroot" means:
1) Run Mer, run Xterm, execute the commands

Well, the easiest way is to use the "Easy Debian" icon or from your Maemo terminal, type "sudo debian". This gives you a Mer root prompt.

Sorry for not being more clear.

Originally Posted by

I have tried using en_US in Mer, logout, restart Mer, no change in labels? Or am I missing another step?

With some more fiddling, I think I could get the standard Mer to work with Easy-Mer (I copied the scripts, and that worked, but there were some other problems) so for the time being, I think I'll just skip it and work with Easy-Mer.

OO3 fails to put an icon in the menu for me as well (apt-get install openoffice.org-gtk).

If, when you do apt-get install from the Mer prompt, you get locale errors (it complains about LANG and not being able to find en_US and stuff) then locales are your problem. If not, then I don't know what's going on.

I'll try to get a new version together to fix a bunch of these problems...

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lemmyslender | # 104 | 2009-06-03, 02:14 | Report

qole

Thanks for the help and pointers. I've followed your post/blog and several other ideas dug up from google. None fixed the locale problem with my labels. Odd since if I booted into,you Easy-Mer image on a partition, they were all correct. OO3 still wouldn't put an icon in the menu though.

Last ditch effort, fresh install, changed maemo from English (US) to English (GB), rebooted. Easy-Mer works fine now. Don't know if tha tells you anything though.

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Grimmer | # 105 | 2009-06-04, 08:56 | Report

Nice job on the deb, worked like charm on my 0s2008 n800.

Tested it yesterday and only problem was that downloads seemed to corrupt on noname sdhc fat-formated disk. But when I downloaded it by hand (wget -c url) to my cloned /-partition which is ext-formated, it worked and uncompressed ok.

Other than that, the mer desktop looks interesting, thanks qole for letting us test mer without repartioning/rebooting nit

qole | # 106 | 2009-06-04, 16:32 | Report

I'll try to get a fixed up new version out the door this weekend.

lemmyslender | # 107 | 2009-07-10, 13:29 | Report

Qole,

Any update for Easy Mer yet? Haven't seen anything in the app manager.

Thanks

qole | # 108 | 2009-07-10, 16:57 | Report

Very sorry, it has been very low priority...

I've been mainly spending my time on building a new deck for my house in time for my wife's birthday... I just got a metric ton of old rotten wood hauled off to the dump so I can start putting up the new structure this weekend...

I will try to spend some time this weekend applying the bugfixes that you guys helped me find to the current Mer version (0.14) and packaging everything up...

lemmyslender | # 109 | 2009-07-10, 18:26 | Report

Thanks for the quick reply.

I just did a deck last spring. Took longer than I thought it would (I actually tore down the back deck and rebuilt it in the front, so I had to dismantle carefully, then built a new back deck).

No hurry, I was just wondering. It's more convenient than rebooting.

One other problem I found, perhaps not related? After exiting Mer, I can no longer use Tear bookmarks to launch Tear in Maemo. I have tear bookmarks installed and use it from the side bar. Select a bookmark and lauch tear. If I reboot, this works correctly until I use Easy Mer again.

qole | # 110 | 2009-08-02, 22:02 | Report

So I'm actually working on this again, using a fully-installed, bootable Mer 0.15 partition... Next version of Easy Mer will allow correct booting to Mer as well as Easy Mer chroot...

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