qole | # 781 | 2009-08-25, 17:35 | Report

You can use Synaptic Package Manager (in your Maemo menu) to browse the Debian repositories. You will need to choose "Reload Package Information" from the Edit menu to get the latest list of apps and packages.

And the whole concept of Debian is Free, as in freedom and as in beer. There's no "Debian App Store"

Addison | # 782 | 2009-08-25, 17:46 | Report

Okay! Good to know!

And beer isn't free here in the states.

Otherwise I wouldn't have to allot $150.00 from my monthly budget for it. *lol*

If it's free in Canada, care for a roomie?

I promise not to try and flush your curtains down the toilet during a drunken episode.

elschemm | # 783 | 2009-08-28, 17:50 | Report

If I run xfontsel from the Debian chroot cmd prompt, it says that only
4 fonts are installed. If I run it inside LXDE, then I have all the usual suspects.

I'm guessing that's because the font's are not being seen by Maemos Xserver. Does anyone know where to put them / how to add them so that they are seen by the 'internal' Xserver.

I ran across that whilst playing with the USB mouse drivers from another thread. It seems that LXDE and the Xserver that qole is using have been hardcoded (not by him, I understand) only to accept input from /dev/event[0-2]). Using the USB mouse drivers with them gives some nasty letter droppings (q's if I recall).

However, if you start your favorite app from the debian chroot command prompt (after su user...) then you are using the maemo X server, and the mouse drivers work perfectly (middle mouse clicks for Xemacs!). If I understand some of the other topics in this thread correctly, I might also be able to 'debbie' them, but I haven't tried yet.

But, fonts are missing.

I think (but am not sure) that this might be related to some nasty flickering on boxes, but it might also be related to something else I have to check into with the Xaw libs. It also tends to peg the processor... But, it's Xemacs on my 810!

I've tried a few ideas thus far, but no joy in the fonts. Any ideas?

Thanks

P.S. Thanks again qole!

P.P.S. When you are playing around with adding and moving X fonts on your maemo partition. Don't accidentally delete /usr/share/X11 on an N810. It's not fun. Trust me.

PanoNS | # 784 | 2009-08-30, 17:33 | Report

How do I uninstall completly this debian?

dantonic | # 785 | 2009-08-30, 19:22 | Report

I think you're supposed to just uninstall the debian package, and then you delete the image file.

I have a question for others, I am not sure if this issue is related to installing/uninstalling multiple times easy debian and mer, I found that the total usable size of my 8GB SD card has been reduced considerably, it now only holds about 6 Gigs...

Is there a way to gain that storage back without having to format the card? What would cause that?

elschemm | # 786 | 2009-08-31, 12:53 | Report

From a cmd prompt, what does df -k say for the card (look for wherever your card is mounted)?

If the first number (the amount of storage available) is close to 8G, then you just have a really big file there. Did you maybe forget to delete the imgfile once you expanded it out (assuming you did so). It's about 2G.

Otherwise, try popping the card and running gparted on it from a Linux box. It will tell you the partition sizes and location pretty easily. You can also do the resize if you have somehow 'lost' part of the card.

Note: if you don't have Linux, grab vmware player and an ubuntu machine and do it that way.

qole | # 787 | 2009-08-31, 22:46 | Report

I have heard that the "lost space" problem can happen if you deleted the image file and you hadn't closed your Debian chroot. I always recommend people to reboot their tablets before deleting the image file.

Reboot your tablet, gain root, and then do the following:

I figure it can't hurt to check both cards.

noctilux | # 788 | 2009-09-01, 18:42 | Report

Hi qole,

am absolutely amazed by what you've done! This is a wonderful addition to the Internet Tablet. I bought my NIT mainly to tinker around, and with your debian distribution, it definitely does not disappoint - thanks a tonne! I'm pretty new to linux but am slowly becoming a fan...

I've actually also become something of a fan of dillo, a super-lightweight web browser. While I haven't found an ARM-compatible version of the latest edition (2.something), the old 0.8.6 is pretty amazing in terms of speed - it's the fastest I've ever seen. Of course, this comes at a price: Neither Javascript, nor CSS (though the latest one does that) let alone flash are supported. However, for pages like Wikipedia, BBC News and most everything that mainly relies on images and text, it is perfect - and it does tabbed browsing, too. Try it yourself - I promise you'll be blown away by the speed...

Anyway, I also have a question: As the new version of liferea apparently syncs with google reader, I am extremely interested in it. I've also found a package of it for ARM, including one on the debian page (somewhere in the sid repositories), but have spent much of today failing to install it . The thing is, the deb-package I have moans about missing packages and does not appear to be able to get them itself (also, the ones on the repository - I tried to install some of them manually - seem to be older than the requirements). The version I get via apt-get/synaptic is the older 1.4, which does not yet support google reader sync.
I'm also a bit confused because my sources.list does appear to contain the sid repository - which should include the latest version - and I have also tried updating my repositories - all to no avail (though it did say something about a failed hash-check on sid?)...
Is there a newer repository for sid-packages? Or is there some other way I can install liferea 1.6?

Thanks a million in advance,

Martin

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qole | # 789 | 2009-09-01, 22:41 | Report

noctilux:

I just checked my debian-squeeze image file (that's the current one), and /etc/apt/sources.list has all the entries for sid. Perhaps you need to do an apt-get update? But it sounds as if you're doing that, so I'm not sure what the problem is. Perhaps try an apt-get -f install to see if you can get to a good, stable place, make sure you're online, do an apt-get update, and then try reinstalling the packages you're interested in.

pinguino89 | # 790 | 2009-10-09, 21:49 | Report

hi qole, I want to question you how do I remove unwanted software (like Firefox and Epiphany), if I uninstall it via terminal or synaptic manager, the icons remains in maemo!!! How to remove them???