(Please note the 5 (five!!!!!) exclamation marks)

This application is in the 2006 application list (http://maemo.org/maemowiki/Applicati...904f38af71f96), but try as I might, there is no way to either get it to show up in the Application Manager's list (and trust me that I've tried everything, short of repeatedly banging my 770 on the floorboards), or even to get it to install directly (the *.armel.deb file is not recognized as a file my 770 can do anything particular with).[*]

I find it most embarrassing that the one application I used to advocate the 770 community appears now to be uninstallable!!!!!

(For those who wonder: five exclamation marks is the Terry Pratchett Lithmus Test For Insanity. And yes: I am virtually there)
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[*]: A preposition I end, whenever I like it, my sentences with.

Try following the links from the garage. I had the same problem but the link in the garage fixed it.

I downloaded it to the device then installed it.
It works.

Already tried. *.armel.deb file won't install (is in fact typed as an unrecognized file type by my 770).

No, it doesn't.

https://garage.maemo.org/frs/downloa...0.23_armel.deb

This is the one I loaded successfully.

My 770 refuses to see it as an installable package.

Apparently, my 770 doesn't recognize any *.armel.deb files anymore. When I select one (e.g. the new MaemoTeX application, it only allows me to save the file, but claims it has no application to open it with.

Strangely enough, when I added the Zip-repository to my list, it listed unzip and zip after a repository update and that application installed flawlessly.

This really pisses me off: this is the sort of erratic behaviour I've come to expect from a Windoze computer, not a Linux workstation. I haven't done anything special other than correcting the URL from the one repository in the list that was faulty and prevented updating (another thing that really should not happen). I haven't even gainrooted in the last month.

This only strenghtens my conviction that there is something fundamentally wrong with the "user proof" Linux implementation Nokia threw into the 770 and that the platform, even more so than the Zaurus, needs a proper Linux distribution that noone from Nokia is allowed to touch. Ever.

Open770, where are you?

Karel,
You are trying to install the file with the application manager, right?

Have you lost only the mime type for .deb files, or all of them ?

It is said in the home of the brave that the following incantations may retrieve them :

update-mime-database /usr/share/mime
update-desktop-database /usr/share/applications