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Title: IPK Conversion Request.
Post by: Foxdie on November 25, 2003, 06:39:37 am

Heya all. I\'m not sure what the (unwritten or written) rules are for making such a request but I desire this applet to be converted to regular sharp rom format:

http://ipkgfind.handhelds.org/details.phtm...luetoothmanager (http://ipkgfind.handhelds.org/details.phtml?package=opie-bluetoothmanager)

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The applet is a Bluetooth Manager written for OpenZaurus, I do a stuff with bluetooth and could make use of such a good applet for the Sharp ROM if anyone knows how to convert it to Sharp ROM, or at least Sharp ROM with libopie installed (which I have. I tried to install the OZ BM ipk to my Z but it wasn\'t recognised by the package manager).

Thanks

Title: IPK Conversion Request.
Post by: lardman on November 25, 2003, 09:42:55 am

use ar to extract the contents of the ipk, then use tar and gzip it back up, rename to ipk.

Si

Title: IPK Conversion Request.
Post by: Foxdie on November 25, 2003, 10:59:23 am

Where is this AR tool? It\'s not installed on my Z C760 With Sharp ROM

Title: IPK Conversion Request.
Post by: lardman on November 25, 2003, 12:05:35 pm

http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?ar (http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?ar)

http://students.bath.ac.uk/enpsgp/opie-blu...0031123_arm.ipk (http://students.bath.ac.uk/enpsgp/opie-bluetoothmanager_0.5.4-20031123_arm.ipk)

Give me a shout when you\'ve downloaded it.


Si

Title: IPK Conversion Request.
Post by: Foxdie on November 25, 2003, 12:25:11 pm

Got it, did you modify it for me?

Title: IPK Conversion Request.
Post by: lardman on November 25, 2003, 01:17:52 pm

Yes, though I don\'t know whether it\'ll work or not. If the worst comes to the worst you can use tar -zxvf filename.ipk to extract the contents and try packaging it yourself.


Si