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Everything Else => Zaurus Distro Support and Discussion => Distros, Development, and Model Specific Forums => Archived Forums => Angstrom & OpenZaurus => Topic started by: Calvin on October 04, 2004, 04:19:02 pm
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I just dusted off my old Z 5500, and even ordered a new battery for it. I installed and tried both images (GPE and Opie) for OZ 3.5.1. Both are nice, and I kinda like GPE better, but not by much. I have had problems w/both though.
I seem to have lots of dependency problems in Opie, and things just don't work when they are installed. For example I couldn't get konqueror to run until I added several extra feeds to my ipkg.conf file (I'm not sure which one cleared up the problem). I still can't get gaim, IRO, OpieMediaPlayer2... etc. to install. I'm installing to an SD card in ext2 format, and using the ipkg-link command after every install.
With GPE I can never seem to get the ipkg.conf file set up correctly, so I don't know if I will have the same problems with it. At one time I did get everything running, and even got minimo and dillo2 installed, but something weird happened and the Z got caught up in a loop in a reboot and never recovered. I can't for the life of me remember what I did to get it to work.
Here are the 3.5.1 feeds I have in my ipkg.conf file to get konqueror running.
http://opie.handhelds.org/feed/5thtoe/ (http://opie.handhelds.org/feed/5thtoe/)
http://admin.di.fc.ul.pt/~bsantos/feed/ (http://admin.di.fc.ul.pt/~bsantos/feed/)
http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.1/feed/ (http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.1/feed/)
http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.1/upgrades (http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.1/upgrades)
Does anyone else have trouble installing software on OZ 3.5.1? If anyone could help, I would like to have gaim, some wordprocessor/speadsheet, IRK, a media player, and a nice webbrowser. GPE is preffered, but it really doesn't matter. If anyone has a minute, I would appreciate some help.
Thanks in advance.
,Cal
P.S. Is there a list of packages I should install immediately to avoid dependency problems? It seemed to help when i installed a bunch of simple programs first. I don't know why. Should I set Force Depends in the package manager?
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I'm right there with you trying to get the GPE version working. I have just now finaly gotten my CF card to mount correctly, after a couple of re-flashes, and I have also found ipkg to be completely borked.
I have tried to add /mnt/cf/upgrades as a source (the file is there coppied directly from the oz feed) using the line src upgrades /mnt/cf/upgrades/but every time I try to update lists through the front end (GPE-package) or through the command line using ipkg update, it returns an error saying that there was an error with /etc/ipkg.conf or that /mnt/cf/upgrades/Packages could not be found.
This release 'looks' great but I'm still waiting for functionality.
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Edit: Duh, you would think that by now I would have learned to read. Sorry for answering the wrong question....
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I have tried to add /mnt/cf/upgrades as a source (the file is there coppied directly from the oz feed) using the line src upgrades /mnt/cf/upgrades/
src upgrades file:///mnt/cf/upgrades may be more useful.
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I seem to have lots of dependency problems in Opie, and things just don't work when they are installed. For example I couldn't get konqueror to run until I added several extra feeds to my ipkg.conf file (I'm not sure which one cleared up the problem). I still can't get gaim, IRO, OpieMediaPlayer2... etc. to install. I'm installing to an SD card in ext2 format, and using the ipkg-link command after every install.
Konq installed fine and works fine for me. I just used the main 3.5.1 feed: http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.1/feed/ (http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.1/feed/)
I've also installed Opie-mediaplayer2. It runs fine but there's no icon (this is a problem with the ipk). Haven't tried gaim yet (doesn't seem to be a new build of it - the one in the feed is for GPE from the look of the dependencies), not sure what IRO is.
Si
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Sorry IRO should be IRK, which is a IR keyboard driver.... Could you tell me how to run opie-media player2 from the command line?
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I have tried to add /mnt/cf/upgrades as a source (the file is there coppied directly from the oz feed) using the line src upgrades /mnt/cf/upgrades/
src upgrades file:///mnt/cf/upgrades may be more useful.
I love you mickey.
That works like a charm, and now i can install what I need to moutn my SD card, then I can instal.........
THanks.
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Could you tell me how to run opie-media player2 from the command line?
I can't remember exactly what it's called but I think it's opieplayer2; so:
# /opt/QtPalmtop/bin/opieplayer2
Si
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I've also installed Opie-mediaplayer2. It runs fine but there's no icon (this is a problem with the ipk).
Sorry to ask such a basic question.
Is there a way to solve the missing icon problem from the console to create one?
Or is it that it will not work even if one is set up?
Thanks,
-G-
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You can just create a .desktop file in opt/QtPalmtop/apps/Applications/ pointing to the correct binary.
Copy on the the existing ones and alter the bits inside and the name.
Si