So... I'm trying to install a program by someone at Maemo...

I've never dealt with linux and they're talking about the instruction in some sort of crazy language that I know some of you understand... can you help me? How do I do this?

From the site:

I've quickly rebuilt evince and dependencies for the N800. It seems
to work well and much better than in the 770. Unfortunately I don't
have much time neither to test it better nor to set up an repository.
So I've uploaded a tarball including all packages necessary. The
direct link follows:

http://www.maemo.org.br/platform/etr...ce_n800.tar.gz

Explode the tarball somewhere and copy the debian files to the
N800. Then with xterm and root run dpkg -i *.deb. I hope this helps.


Then someone as an issue and follows:

The problem is you don't have libglade installed and dpkg itself
can't solve dependencies. Please, add the maemo repository to your
/etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://repository.maemo.org bora free non-free

Or if you're using the application installer:

Web address: http://repository.maemo.org
Distribution: bora
Components: free non-free

And then, as root, run apt-get install libglade.



WHAT ARE THEY TALKING ABOUT!

Can someone hold my hand.... we gotta make this easy if we want more people to pick up this device and have fun with it!

Thanks!

evince is an application, it was compiled, as were the files it relies upon.


repository: where applications are stored for easy access by using the application manager.


tarball: an archive, generally a .tar (like. zip), of the files.

explode: extract.

dpkg: one of the various package management tools.

Not to be a prat about it.. but, these posts and items are not intended for the casual user or newbie. So, asking for "how to" guides on these sorts of things isn't exactly a practical thing.

The most I can offer is reading through maemo.org, the wikis and everything else, as well as reading some basic unix sysadmin tutorials. If you don't understand something you see, there are plenty of sites (even wikipedia) that will explain these items. One good tool is "man", short for "manual". You can always google "man somefunnyterm".

bon chance!

You should be able to forget about all the install information you listed. I just installed it on my n800 using these 2 repositories.

[evince]
Repository: http://www.maemo.org.br/platform/apt
Distribution: mistral
Component: user

[libglade]
Repository: http://repository.maemo.org/
Distribution: bora
Component: free non-free extras

Maybe I'm missing something, but the new application catalog is pretty worthless for finding repository information unless there's an .install link. Until that's fixed I'm afraid it'll turn new users off to the internet tablet.

I can understand your frustration. This tells me nothing about evince and how to install it.

You can use the old catalog until the new one is updated.