@bun: Thanks for the xterm clarification - I tried to be very specific but that one I didn't think of! (too long Unix experience here..) I updated my posting accordingly.

@vvaz: I'm aware of mkdir -p on the desktop, but I have not checked if the tablet version supports it - lots of stuff is busybox-based there. So to play it safe I used two steps.

@coosbaytv: I installed many of my first Garnet VM applications from my Palm PDA as follows:

1: Use FileZ or some other tool to bluetooth the application to the tablet (just turn on BT on the tablet and make it visible first). A pop-up on the tablet will show the application as a <something>.prc and ask where to store it. I had made a prc directory on one of my SD cards for this.

2: Start Garnet VM on the tablet, hit 'install', and use its filemanager to navigate to the place where the .prc was stored, and select it.

3: That's it. After that it should show up in the Garnet VM launcher, but sometimes with a different name from the one you will see when you have the actual GVM running (which is where you can see the familiar PalmOS home screen).

4: .pdb files can be transferred and installed the same way, use FileZ for this.

5: If you already have an SD card with Palm applications installed then you can also use that one directly as-is, see my earlier posting about how to set up Garnet VM to use an SD card.

6: Edit: Unlike a real PalmOS PDA Garnet VM can actually see multiple SD cards.. just add more (as 1, 2, 3 etc.) and put them in different subdirectories on the physical card(s) you have. Not that I think I will need this feature much, but it's good to know it's there. See this post by Bunanson (and the whole thread really): http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=288060&postcount=9

TA-t3:

Sounds pretty straight forward and simple enough.

All I really want to do with this is install Ereader, Docs To Go, and maybe something like Bhaji Loops.

The tablet itself with the Open Source apps available does a far better job at everything else than the correlating Palm OS apps. But I am looking forward to using the tablet to read both my Ebooks in PDB and PDF!

OK, so I tried to install and the first time it said that the install app was corrupt.

I redownloaded and transfered via usb to tablet and this time it says Cannot Install, missing files.

3 files were listed all of which had "lib" in their title.

I Downloaded this install file straight from the Garnet website.

Any ideas on how to solve this?

Anyone have the full package that they can send or point me to?

Thanks!

I use GVM all the time now to read ebooks with eReader. With SD cards now working with GVM, eReader works great with ebooks stored on an SD card along with the 10MB Webster's New World College Dictionary. Great stuff!

Are you talking about the actual Garnet emulator itself? The filename should be something like garnet-vm_1.0.3b_ITOS200x.deb (where x is 6 or 7 or 8), IIRC. No 'lib' anywhere in the filename..

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you x a million to everyone who made it possible to get my palm apps usable from the sd card! Even a virtual and perpetual newbie like me was able to follow the explicit directions given here at this site. Unadventurous n800 fans like me really do appreciate all the help we find here!!

TA-t3:

Yes it is the 2008 version of Garnet Emulator. When I started to install gave me the error that said cannot proceed, missing "lib" files...which is where the 3 files were listed.

The actual install file has no "lib" in the name.
I am assuming these are "library" type files that are part of the installation. Maybe they are for something to make it interact with the tablet OS itself?

@coosbaytv: OK, you're missing some libraries that garnet-vm depends on. There are a number of them (many more than 3, so you're missing only a few). First of all, make sure that you have the correct version (OS2007 or OS2008, I'm gueesing you're on OS2008 so that's the version you want).

What's the exact name of the missing libs? You will at some point have to go online with your Nokia so that the application manager can find the dependencies. I'm not certain if it can resolve it automatically while you install from file (I'm assuming you installed the garmin-vm .deb via application manager) if you're online while doing the installation, because I wasn't missing any libs when I did it. But if you list your missing libs I'm sure it can be sorted out. It's probably described already in some earlier Garnet VM thread even.

On tablet, go menu>Control panel>About, that will tell your tablet OS.
The 2008 version works ONLY ONLY with the 5.2008.43-7, any previous version WILL NOT WORK, has dependency problem. Two ways to get around. ONE upgrade your OS to 5.2008.43-7. Two, use the gvm for 2007OS, the 2007OS GVM does NOT have file dependence problem.

bun

So GVM OS2007 works also on OS2008? That's useful to know. (I myself used the OS2007 version of course, as I'm still on OS2007.)

@coosbaytv: If you choose to go the OS2007 version way, and you already got the OS2008 version via a link in an email from Access, then just edit that link and replace OS2008 with OS2007 and it should point you to the right download.