Scratchbox maemo-sdk installer issues Ubuntu Maverick [Workaround]

[mr id]

Hi all,

I've recently done a clean install of Ubuntu Maverick (10.10) 64 bit on my development machine and encountered a few unusual problems in installing the maemo5 sdk with scratchbox.

The main issue seemed to be that between scratchbox 1.0.16 and ubuntu 10.10 the sdk install scripts would fail with:
'no terminal found: xterm'

From http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/kb/article.php?id=454 (thanks to aykito) run the following as root in the host terminal:

mkdir -p /usr/share/terminfo/x

cd /usr/share/terminfo/x

ln -s /lib/terminfo/x/xterm xterm

Other issues such as needing to set vdso32=0 as a boot line (vdso=0 for non 64 bit setups) rather than a sysctl entry and the extant 'tset no terminal' issue when switching targets in scratchbox (logout and login to scracthbox to work around this) everything seems to be okay.

I've not tested the X86 target as I'm working with audio which isn't supported anyway, so I can't comment on Xephyr integration.

Posted just in case it's of use to anyone else.

cheers

[aykito]

You don't need editing the file.
To solve the problem with the "Error opening terminal: xterm" error follow the instructions at http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/kb/article.php?id=454

[mr id]

Originally Posted by aykito

You don't need editing the file.
To solve the problem with the "Error opening terminal: xterm" error follow the instructions at http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/kb/article.php?id=454

Sounds promising, will try and confirm later on. Wish I could have found this when I was searching for solutions.

cheers

[mr id]

Yep, can confirm this works as expected:

In the host's terminal, as root, execute:

mkdir -p /usr/share/terminfo/x

cd /usr/share/terminfo/x

ln -s /lib/terminfo/x/xterm xterm


The scratchbox environment now has a working terminal again - you can change targets, run the installer etc as expected.

Many thanks aykito.