Qole: Will you add the "Easy Meego" you're making up on your repo, so we can all download it? I would love to be the first!
i would love to try out some new OS's Easy Debian style!!
Edit:
I'm going to TRY and build an "easy" Fedora tonight. I just don't really know anything more than the loopback part
But I'll give it a shot. Most likely another failure, but using Qole's help and advice above, I'm sure we could get one running!
Edit Again: No Go. Could not get it going correctly.
I guess we will wait, or just enough Easy Debian! (Although!! Qole: "Easy" Meego would be great!!!! Hint Hint, Buddy! MATE! PAL!)
if I recall correctly there is a linux distro called "easy peasy". why not make an easy easy peasy just for the heck of it.
seriously though, the more I read about redhat/centos/fedora vs debian the more I am convinced one needs to know both, and that the differences are great enough that an easy fedora would really be a great thing.
yeah, you can even have multiple chroots open simultaneously. I currently am working on a Meego chroot and using Easy Debian to do it.
Wow - Easy Debian is really the single most powerful app on the N900. I'm not sure I would now be buying another N900 after I lost it to a pickpocket during my vacation in Paris three weeks ago if there was no Easy Debian. In particular after seeing qwerty12 leave this community in disgust and with more than disgusting statements that I fail to find hilarious. But you, qole, make me look forward to having an N900 again soon.
EDIT (albeit coming too late): Happy birthday, qole!
so I really hope it could be done. in that case I could leave easy debian as the os I dont break (I am trying to learn perl on it) and use fedora as my learn stuff dont care if I have to reinstall os. I have beeen looking at a netbook to dig into fedora but if we had easy fedora could do it all from my phone. hpoe the answer is yes. heck it may even run calibre which easy debian cannot. sorry typing on kindle.
Follow Jebba's guide up to where you extrat the rootfs. the chroot into it. to get yum working, you need to rebuild the rpm database.
Do this by:
Code:
cd /var/lib
rm __db*
rpm --rebuilddb
let it do its thing and then run
Code:
yum update --skip-broken
I did this and got yum working.
ok I don't see any _db files in the /var/lib directory, I went to the /var/lib/rpm and removed any _db files there (don't know if that was correct). then rpm --rebuilddb gives this...
Nokia-N900:/var/lib/rpm# rpm --rebuilddb
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
I copied the stuff to make new yum repos as per your later post but I am pretty sure that can't work till I can get past this initial stage.
I'm a bout ready to just give up and use the easy debian as it is flawless.
ok I can take a hint, I did try to get fedora working but following the instructions given to me I could not get rmp/yum working. I will start shopping for a netbook for this, but I'd just like to know for certain first that easy fedora will not be created for the n900...
I would love to be the first!
