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Title: Problems On Installing Packages Oz3.5.3/opie
Post by: buz on December 31, 2005, 04:07:52 pm: hi,
first of all: sorry for my bad english.

i have a SL5500G with 512MB/SD-card and a 128MB/CF-card. for now im using zaurus>USBcradle>winxp>inet to connect.
i can flash OZ3.5.3/3.5.2/3.5.1 and opie without problems. the zImage is *32-32*.

but i cannot install any packages no matter wich OZ-version - most of the time the Z hangs up at the installprocess, and if not, im having troubles with the dependencies (isnt ipkg responsible for deps.?)
i manually changed and entered all the package-links without exception, so it finds all available packages.

first of all i want to install a media player (tryed xmms opiemplayer) and a vnc server for comfort while getting ill with this kind of problems. i also tryed to install some other tiny apps just for testing if its a package-problem --> also failed.

can someone help me out, before i hurt my Z, please?

do i have to change the distri/zImage/card/ etc...?

thanks in advance.
Title: Problems On Installing Packages Oz3.5.3/opie
Post by: lardman on January 01, 2006, 08:03:37 am: Are you using ipkg from the command line? If not, do so.

Once you've done that, can you post some output from ipkg.

Cheers,

Si
Title: Problems On Installing Packages Oz3.5.3/opie
Post by: buz on January 02, 2006, 05:04:43 pm: hi!

i tryed to install mplayer on ram.
the installprocess seems to be succesfully but as you see i cant load the mplayer-binary.

ill try to install some other packages in the meantime to get a little closer to my problem, because for now i dont understand nothing.

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root@collie:/mnt# ipkg -d ram install mplayer Installing mplayer (1.0pre6a-r0) to ram... Downloading http://oz.hentges.net/mirror/oz3.5.3/feed/opie/mplayer_1.0pre6a-r0_arm.ipk package ncurses suggests installing ncurses-terminfo Installing libmad0 (0.15.0b-r0) to ram... Downloading http://oz.hentges.net/mirror/oz3.5.3/feed/libs/libmad0_0.15.0b-r0_arm.ipk Installing libvorbis (1.0.1-r0) to ram... Downloading http://oz.hentges.net/mirror/oz3.5.3/feed/libs/libvorbis_1.0.1-r0_arm.ipk Installing libogg0 (1.1-r1) to ram... Downloading http://oz.hentges.net/mirror/oz3.5.3/feed/libs/libogg0_1.1-r1_arm.ipk Installing ncurses (5.4-r7) to ram... Downloading http://oz.hentges.net/mirror/oz3.5.3/feed/libs/ncurses_5.4-r7_arm.ipk Installing libpostproc0 (1.0pre6a-r0) to ram... Downloading http://oz.hentges.net/mirror/oz3.5.3/feed/opie/libpostproc0_1.0pre6a-r0_arm.ipk Configuring libmad0 Configuring libogg0 Configuring libpostproc0 Configuring libvorbis Configuring mplayer Configuring ncurses root@collie:/mnt# ipkg-link add mplayer *** Command: add *** Locating package *** Found package on /media/ram/packages *** Adding mplayer *** Done. root@collie:/mnt# mplayer mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libmad.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
thanks!
Title: Problems On Installing Packages Oz3.5.3/opie
Post by: lardman on January 02, 2006, 06:32:41 pm: Try:

'ipkg-link mount /media/ram/packages'

(if that doesn't work, try 'ipkg-link mount /media/ram')

The way you ran ipkg-link you only linked one package, mplayer. Using 'ipkg-link mount ...' will link all of the packages under a given mount point.

Si
Title: Problems On Installing Packages Oz3.5.3/opie
Post by: buz on January 03, 2006, 04:27:23 am: he,
thanks man, this was working!
i can finally install packages, yeah.

i installed opie-mediaplayer2 and it have still a little problem:

for testing i downloaded some pocketmovies in mpg1 in low resolution.
i can hear the sound but dont see anything (just black).
i did read that it could be the ram, so i created temporarly a 8MB swapfile to see if this works. didnt.

where can i see how much ram (the random one) is used?

i ran following commands for the swap:

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root@collie:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/root/swapfile bs=1024 count=8192 dd: /home/root/swapfile: No space left on device root@collie:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=/media/card/swapfile bs=1024 count=8192 8192+0 records in 8192+0 records out root@collie:~# mkswap /media/card/swapfile Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 8384512 bytes root@collie:~# swapon /media/card/swapfile root@collie:~# free total used free shared buffers Mem: 30160 29392 768 0 160 Swap: 8184 0 8184 Total: 38344 29392 8952
could the problem be the space, or something else?

thanks in advance
Title: Problems On Installing Packages Oz3.5.3/opie
Post by: lardman on January 03, 2006, 12:31:39 pm: Not sure, but you should start a new thread otherwise people will never find any info in this one about you possible memory issues (because of the title).

In your new thread, post the output when you start opie-mediaplayer2 from the command line and try to play the file.

Si