I see that you have come to a solution to the "problem", however installing it trough xterminal is easy once you know the location of the .deb file.
Downloaded the GPE filemanager wich shows full location of directories and your all set with dpkg
Lol got that, still can't figure out where the hell my hello world.deb file is
If you already have the .deb file then just send it to your phone via Bluetooth/usb and save it to the n900 main dir that pops up first. Then go into file manager click on N900 icon locate the .deb file. Click on the file and it will either automatically open with Application manager or ask you which applicatio to use to open it. It should auto install from there asuming the .deb is in the right format ie a Fremantle download.
How to know if its fermantie download ?? Sorry newbie
Hi folks - thanks for the info and advice - I'm a long time Symbian user but new to Maemo (but having fun with it )
After several attempts to depackage the Xarchiver deb file (installed shroot but could not change directory to my download folder as it could not be found - but is shown in file manager in MyDocumnets!) I took the red pill and installed through App Manager.
So far so good but I can't do much with Xarchiver without the command line utilities (for zip, unzip unrar etc).
Where can I get these and how are they installed/created?
Thanks in advance...
If you don't see zip and unzip (or unzip-fm, as I think it's now called) in the application manager, with extras and extras-testing enabled, then they're in extras-devel and you should enable it for a moment. Then you can install them in application manager (no red pill needed). Disable extras-devel afterwards. unrar I'm not certain about, but you can always apt-get search it while you have extras-devel enabled.
yer，you can use red pill, it's very easy to install a .deb file,not use dpkg -i appName.deb.this dpkg way also need you get root,just use red pill,if you want use red pill ,just likepen app manager, new a catalogs,only set web address:xxx，after don't save and exit ,there will show a dialog,just click red pill,end you can back to app manager,click install from file and select the .deb file you want to install
pen app manager, new a catalogs,only set web address:xxx，after don't save and exit ,there will show a dialog,just click red pill,end you can back to app manager,click install from file and select the .deb file you want to install