I am three days in with an N800 and the device is starting to become part of my life already. I do have a few questions that I hope are easily solved:

1) I have managed to download some apps and get them working (e.g. maemopad+, FBReader, Maemo Mapper) with relative ease. They are great. Some other apps won't install because they are missing libraries (e.g. canola, gnumeric). So the question is: where are the libraries and how do I get them installed.

2) I read on a post somewhere that there is a place to suggest application enhancements, etc. (I have a lot of thoughts particularly in regards to the RSS reader) and that someone actually is listening. Can someone tell me where that is?

One last thing, can somebody please port Open Office!!!

Sorry if these are a bit elementary but I promise to gain more experize!

Thanks,
Fred

Fred, Porting Open Office would be all but impossible.

First the size of the application makes it unsuitable for the tablet.
Second the requirement for java would preclude the functionality all together.

Oh well, it was worth a shot.

Fred

but you can use abiword and gnumeric to read office files ...

Fred

Gnumeric works fine on the N800, but Abiword does not, at least in my experience.

Do you know of a way to get that working on the N800? That would be great!

R.
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How did you get the gnumeric libraries? I will look around for abiword. I haven't found that yet.

Fred

click on software at the top and do a search for office software. If we have more success with alternate window managers, we have even more options

OK, I should have been more thorough in my search before asking. I enabled Red Pill mode and could then install Abiword.

YAY! I have a working word processor. This made my day.

R.
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I am still having problems getting gnumeric and now abiword to work. How do I find a copy of libglade2???? I have found some threads discussing that this happens sometimes band it needs to be loaded manually.

How does one do that!!! I am getting frustrated

Fred

OK, I have it figured out. DIdn;t have all the repositories loaded properly.

Anyway, now I need to understand why documents and spreadsheets downloaded from the Outlook web server are not able to be opened in Abiword and Gnumeric respectively.

Fred