Please a how-to about install programs. I change ipkg.conf to use compact flash, because i dont have wireless. With opie 3.5.2 it worked. But now, package installer dont find any program in the compact flash. I change ipkg.conf and add this lines, by example:
src/gz base file:///media/cf/feed/base.
src/gz console file:///media/cf/feed/console
an so on…
But now, it didnt find any program in this directories in the compact flash. it dont work and Im unable to install anything. Why are you change that important issue without explain now how to install programs in this way? Please help…
The installation procedure is error prone. I still don’t understand why you need Sharp’s original partitioning, but Full NAND Restore was the only way which worked for me.
IMHO you should distribute files with correct filenames, another error source, maybe zip/tar them. That way you can add version information to the zip/tar file without renaming initrd.bin and so on.
Hello
The installation of the 3.5.4 was fine.
After installation I had just one problem but a big one. My C760 wasn’t recognized as an USB device, a “lsusb” ouput the same result as if no device was connected. I go back to the 3.5.3, “lsusb” ouput the right device.
I try a fresh installation of 3.5.4, and it was the same (no USB). Sorry but i go back to 3.5.3.
Progress Report, on a collie
I have managed to get some successfull package installations using the power of the unix command line.
I used the following in the root terminal
ipkg update
ipkg install gpe-filemanager -d sd
and viola it grabbed all the dependencies and installed everything on my ample 1GB SD card.
Unfortunatly it created no icon or link to launch gpe-filemanager
K, back to the command line as my user I navigated to:
@ /mnt/card/packages/usr/bin
and then executed
@ ./gpe-filemanager
Still no workie, linux echoed back:
@ ./gpe-filemanager error while loading shared libraries: libgnomevfs-2.so.0: cannot open shared object file No such file or directory
so I then tried a reboot
nope no new icons, and even command line execution still yeilds the above error.
I did some hunting ing /lib and /usr/lib and in the list of downloadables and did not find any reference to:libgnomevfs
just found libgnomevfs hiding under /mnt/card/packages/usr/lib which sounds like a logical place to locate it. Now why is it not loaded when ./gpe-filemanager is launched?
Don’t know why my first attempt went wrong. After the init display the machine got hung etternally. Fortunely I got a Flash NAND image somewhere of a TheKompany rom that worked for giving some calm to me :-)
Second try was a succes!! I downloaded the right 3 parts and renamed them correctly (a hard and adrenalinic thing, yeah!) Then the miracle did happen in front my eyes: my “Z” loaded a brand new OZ ROM -Opie- and now everything is wonderful.
I agree: Why not to make things easier??? A NAND image catalogue would save milliards of Zaurus to become just elegant leaf holders…!! :-) (Watapon ROM: see you on the other side!!)
To hasty-solutions: I get the same problem. The thing is that ipkg doesn’t make the symbolic links, so you have to make them all by yourself (enjoy).
I still get problems with that (e.g. I think I’ve made symbolic links to folders, and the libs still have trouble accessing some files.)
So, yeah: it would really be lovely if someone had a faster way to install ipk’s on external flash cards.
Don’t ask me why, but it seems, you should enter “-d sd” before the package name, immediatly after the “install” command.
E.g.: ipkg install -d sd gpe-filemanager
Please a how-to about install programs. I change ipkg.conf to use compact flash, because i dont have wireless. With opie 3.5.2 it worked. But now, package installer dont find any program in the compact flash. I change ipkg.conf and add this lines, by example:
src/gz base file:///media/cf/feed/base.
src/gz console file:///media/cf/feed/console
an so on…
But now, it didnt find any program in this directories in the compact flash. it dont work and Im unable to install anything. Why are you change that important issue without explain now how to install programs in this way? Please help…
The installation procedure is error prone. I still don’t understand why you need Sharp’s original partitioning, but Full NAND Restore was the only way which worked for me.
IMHO you should distribute files with correct filenames, another error source, maybe zip/tar them. That way you can add version information to the zip/tar file without renaming initrd.bin and so on.
Excellent! I’m so glad this release has been perfected, thanks for working on it for so long! Now I can stop carrying books on the bus…
Hello
The installation of the 3.5.4 was fine.
After installation I had just one problem but a big one. My C760 wasn’t recognized as an USB device, a “lsusb” ouput the same result as if no device was connected. I go back to the 3.5.3, “lsusb” ouput the right device.
I try a fresh installation of 3.5.4, and it was the same (no USB). Sorry but i go back to 3.5.3.
Progress Report, on a collie
I have managed to get some successfull package installations using the power of the unix command line.
I used the following in the root terminal
ipkg update
ipkg install gpe-filemanager -d sd
and viola it grabbed all the dependencies and installed everything on my ample 1GB SD card.
Unfortunatly it created no icon or link to launch gpe-filemanager
K, back to the command line as my user I navigated to:
@ /mnt/card/packages/usr/bin
and then executed
@ ./gpe-filemanager
Still no workie, linux echoed back:
@ ./gpe-filemanager error while loading shared libraries: libgnomevfs-2.so.0: cannot open shared object file No such file or directory
so I then tried a reboot
nope no new icons, and even command line execution still yeilds the above error.
I did some hunting ing /lib and /usr/lib and in the list of downloadables and did not find any reference to:libgnomevfs
Help stuck again :-(
And still now webbrowser or filemanager…
just found libgnomevfs hiding under /mnt/card/packages/usr/lib which sounds like a logical place to locate it. Now why is it not loaded when ./gpe-filemanager is launched?
what needs to happen to get it to work?
Don’t know why my first attempt went wrong. After the init display the machine got hung etternally. Fortunely I got a Flash NAND image somewhere of a TheKompany rom that worked for giving some calm to me :-)
Second try was a succes!! I downloaded the right 3 parts and renamed them correctly (a hard and adrenalinic thing, yeah!) Then the miracle did happen in front my eyes: my “Z” loaded a brand new OZ ROM -Opie- and now everything is wonderful.
I agree: Why not to make things easier??? A NAND image catalogue would save milliards of Zaurus to become just elegant leaf holders…!! :-) (Watapon ROM: see you on the other side!!)
To hasty-solutions: I get the same problem. The thing is that ipkg doesn’t make the symbolic links, so you have to make them all by yourself (enjoy).
I still get problems with that (e.g. I think I’ve made symbolic links to folders, and the libs still have trouble accessing some files.)
So, yeah: it would really be lovely if someone had a faster way to install ipk’s on external flash cards.
Don’t ask me why, but it seems, you should enter “-d sd” before the package name, immediatly after the “install” command.
E.g.: ipkg install -d sd gpe-filemanager
Sorry… still seems like there will be some symlinking to be done.