@extendedping: I tried again calibre, and now it worked out of the box, perhaps due to some updates of the Debian squeeze distribution.
It takes some time to start, but once running, it's working well. See this youtube video if someone doesn't know yet what calibre is good for (I didn't).
CAVEAT: Like with eric4 (see post above), this needs the .kbdactive fix of the last easy-deb-chroot version for debbie keyboard focus, and moreover libpulse0 from squeeze. The latter breaks sound in Easy Debian, however. If you need sound in Easy Debian (I don't really), you may want to wait until somebody (qole?) could tell us what to do about it.
Maxima, xmaxima, and wxmaxima work. The last one works particularly nicely on the N900. If you search this thread, you'll find out more about that.
I agree. wxmaxima works well.
Question: In LXDE one can use "ctrl + up"
to make full screen. How does one make wxmaxima full screen when
using "debbie wxmaxima" from the xterminal to avoid going into LXDE?
Question: In LXDE one can use use "ctrl + up"
to make full screen. How does one make wxmaxima full screen when
using "debbie wxmaxima" from the xterminal to avoid going into LXDE?
Same, you just have to have "Set Deb HW Keys" active. I have a desktop shortcut with
@extendedping: I tried again calibre, and now it worked out of the box, perhaps due to some updates of the squeeze distribution.
thank, just to refresh, in this case, (am running the more stable version of easy debian) just enable the squeeze repos...
then do apt-get update?
then do apt-get install calibre (don't do apt-get upgrade correct)?
then if all goes well I comment out the repos?
@extendedping: I tried again calibre, and now it worked out of the box, perhaps due to some updates of the squeeze distribution.
I tried to install calibre using synaptic but
it failed. I ran "dpkg ---configure -a" to fix problem. oddly, I get the error
dpkg: failed to write status record about "maxima" to '/var/lib/dpkg/status': No space left on device
When I do a df it appears that there is plenty of space.
So my question is, as I'm concerned about removing files that should
not be touched, where are some good places to look to
remove files to clear space for this installation?
thank, just to refresh, in this case, (am running the more stable version of easy debian) just enable the squeeze repos...
then do apt-get update?
then do apt-get install calibre (don't do apt-get upgrade correct)?
then if all goes well I comment out the repos?
Yes, indeed. You'll need to upgrade libpulse0, too, if you don't have the squeeze version anyway already (see my above post).
I tried to install calibre using synaptic but
it failed. I ran "dpkg ---configure -a" to fix problem. oddly, I get the error
dpkg: failed to write status record about "maxima" to '/var/lib/dpkg/status': No space left on device
When I do a df it appears that there is plenty of space.
So my question is, as I'm concerned about removing files that should
not be touched, where are some good places to look to
remove files to clear space for this installation?
Have you done "apt-get clean" yet? Once everything has been unpacked, you can clean apt's cache and continue with configuring. See also my installation log (link in my signature) for how to make more space by moving things to /home/user.
Have you done "apt-get clean" yet? Once everything has been unpacked, you can clean apt's cache and continue with configuring. See also my installation log (link in my signature) for how to make more space by moving things to /home/user.
Hi, I had previously moved things, as you had recommended, to /home/user so I could install xcadabra. Also had tried "apt-get clean" which I routinely do. So I think I need to remove some files just wondering what is a good rule of thumb to safely pick them.
Hi, I had previously moved things, as you had recommended, to /home/user so I could install xcadabra. Also had tried "apt-get clean" which I routinely do. So I think I need to remove some files just wondering what is a good rule of thumb to safely pick them.
In principle you could move any directory into /home/user (though not into MyDocs) and symlink to it - provided you have space there to spare. I would choose directories on the basis that it would make sense to share them between different Debian images. Besides /usr/share/doc I would consider /usr/share/texmf-texlive.
hi,please help. i tried downloading nitdroid from the application manager but it didnt show up in extras devel..and i couldnt get it by apt get...someone suggested adding a repo of nitdroid..that didnt work too...so i tried downloading nitdroid-installer_0.2.7_armel.deb from nitdroid downloads...it gave an error about 2 missing dependencies...multiboot-kernel-maemo_0.3_armel.deb and multiboot_0.2.10_armel.deb. i tried downloading and installing them directly. i installed multiboot_0.2.10_armel.deb, got a msg to update..and did so. now when i start my phone...i get a white screen with the msg 'press a key to select' it has nokia n900 multiboot written on top and the number 30 on the right.i have tried pressing all the keys but nothing happens, expect that the numbers count down to 1 and start on 30 again.the phone switches off after some time automatically...any help...whats happening?
