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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Newbie : Sl-5500 And 3.5.3/3.5.4-rc

« on: December 20, 2005, 01:46:18 am »

Now, I'm trying to install the media player and I can't seem to find a libxine1.

You can 'only have one' machine feed and one opie feed in your ipkg.conf
Your second machine feed should be:
src/gz upgrades http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op...3.5.3/upgrades/

that is where you will find the libxine1 for your media player

Your second opie feed is not an opie feed and should also be corrected.

Sorry, but that is all I have time for right now... I have to leave.

Greg
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I'm still getting errors like this one :

Installing opie-reader (1.2.0+cvs-20050516-r0) to sd...
Downloading [a href=\"http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.3/upgrades/opie-reader_1.2.0+cvs-20050516-r0_arm.ipk]http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op...0516-r0_arm.ipk[/url]
Nothing to be done
An error ocurred, return value: 1.
Collected errors:
ERROR: Cannot satisfy the following dependencies for opie-reader:
         libqpe1 (>= 1.2.0) libqte2 (>= 2.3.10)

My ipkg.conf is :

src machine http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op...upgrades/collie
src upgrades http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op.../3.5.3/upgrades
src base http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op...3.5.3/feed/base
src libs http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op...3.5.3/feed/libs
src console http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op....3/feed/console
src devel http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op....5.3/feed/devel
src opie http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op...3.5.3/feed/opie
src collie http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op.../machine/collie

My versions are :

root@pocket:~# ipkg status libqpe1
Package: libqpe1
Version: 1.2.1-r0
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2+cvs20040726), libqte2 (>= 2.3.10), libgcc1 (>= 3.4.3)
Status: unknown ok installed
Architecture: collie

root@pocket:~# ipkg status libqte2
Package: libqte2
Version: 2.3.10-r27
Depends: libts-0.0-0 (>= 0.0cvs20051019), libc6 (>= 2.3.2+cvs20040726), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2., libz1 (>= 1.2.3), libjpeg62 (>= 6b), libgcc1 (>= 3.4.3)
Status: unknown ok installed
Architecture: collie

My intepretation of the error message is that they need versions equal or greater to the versions listed, which I think I have.

Any help is always appreciated.  Thanks again.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Syncing : 5.3.4-rc, Opie, Wireless, Linux

« on: December 20, 2005, 01:06:55 am »

After the good tips about fixing my feeds, I started working on syncing.

As a general note, if you have the patience to use ethereal, it's a great way to debug the syncing problems.  The newer ethereals will even decode the packet stream as FTP so you can see what's going back and forth.

I have an sl-5500 using 5.3.4-rc with opie.  Multisync version 0.82 with the libmultisync-plugin-opie on Ubuntu Breezy.

The main syncing thread was useful (thanks dansawyer!) but quite didn't work for me, so I'll post what I did and try and note how it's different than what was posted.

Dan rightly points out that you have to symlink Applications, Documents, and Settings to the root (/) from home (/home/root).  From there, I had to create dummy files for addressbook, todolist, and datebook (which leads me to believe you only need to symlink Applications).  Anyway, it looked like this :

cd /
ln -s /home/root/Applications .
ln -s /home/root/Documents .
ln -s /home/root/Settings .

touch /Applications/addressbook/addressbook.xml
touch /Applications/todolist/todolist.xml
touch /Applications/datebook/datebook.xml

You may not have to create the dummy files if you've used the Zaurus applications before.  I did because I wanted all my data first.

I changed the Security->Sync setting to use Intellisync and changed the sync IP range to match my home network.

On the multisync side, I selected :

Type : Opie/OpenZaurus
Protocol : FTP
IP Address : The address of your Zaurus.  I gave mine a DNS name, but Multisync insists on an IP.
Port : 4242
Enable QCop : Disabled

Username : root
Password : Leave this blank.  Despite setting my root password, it doesn't work here.

The Multisync program connects over FTP multiple times, once for each file we 'touch'ed earlier.  You'll get multiple questions on the Z asking if you want to sync, once per connection, eg once per file (it'd be nice to do this once, but alas).

Then, everything sync'd up nicely.  My contacts are a bit strange (In Evo, I have the names as "Last, First" which displays as "Last\, First" in the contacts program), but they're all there, along with my calendar, etc.

That's it.  If you've got this working other ways, I'd love to hear them.  I'm not sure why the other two connection methods don't seem to work, but I'll try them again shortly.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Few Questions

« on: December 19, 2005, 11:30:31 pm »

3.  Can anyone point me to some docs, in reference to learning more I can do when I ssh into the Z? (I use it at work and sometimes can't get it to do what I want when it's supposed to)

Collie OZ 3.5.3 - Opie 1.2, GPE ?
512MB SD
SanDisk Connect Plus 128MB CF/Wifi
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Can't really answer your first two questions, but SSH "just worked" out of the box for me.  Dropbear was installed (this is on the 3.5.4-rc) and I could ssh over using root@device and then no passwd (I quickly set a password  ).

Hope that helps.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Newbie : Sl-5500 And 3.5.3/3.5.4-rc

« on: December 19, 2005, 11:51:44 am »

Now, I'm trying to install the media player and I can't seem to find a libxine1.

You can 'only have one' machine feed and one opie feed in your ipkg.conf
Your second machine feed should be:
src/gz upgrades http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op...3.5.3/upgrades/

that is where you will find the libxine1 for your media player

Your second opie feed is not an opie feed and should also be corrected.
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Ah, that helps alot   BTW, does the naming of the feeds actually matter?  I figured it was like Debian and didn't require the names (they're just for "fun").  And why are the feeds segmented?  Why not have "one big feed"?

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Newbie : Sl-5500 And 3.5.3/3.5.4-rc

« on: December 19, 2005, 02:10:36 am »

Hi all,
    Thanks for all your great work so far.  I'm getting alot of great use out of my Z

On to the other stuff.  I have an SL-5500 with 512 CF, 1GB SD, and Linksys CF card.  I'm using the 3.5.4-rc image with Opie.  I'm using the SD card with the network card and ssh'ing over to run commands.

- Install
The install went pretty well.  Flashing instructions from ( http://openzaurus.org/wordpress/not-in-men...l-5600-revised/ ) worked very well.  It'd be nice to have that linked from the main page, instead of having to find that link in the comments.

- Configuration
The ipkg feeds weren't valid, but I read around and found where to update them from.  My file now looks like this (I left out the parts I haven't changed) :

lists_dir ext /mnt/card/.altroot/var/lib/ipkg
src/gz machine http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op...upgrades/collie
src/gz machine http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op.../3.5.3/upgrades
src/gz base http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op...3.5.3/feed/base
src/gz libs http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op...3.5.3/feed/libs
src/gz console http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op....3/feed/console
src/gz devel http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op....5.3/feed/devel
src/gz opie http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op...3.5.3/feed/opie
src/gz opie http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op.../machine/collie
dest root /
#dest cf /media/cf/packages/
dest sd /media/card/packages/
#dest ram /media/ram/packages/

I added the "machine" feed as well as the "upgrades" feeds (not sure that I need the upgrades?).

I moved /opt/ to /mnt/card/.altroot/opt/ and updated the symlinks from root.

I installed konqueror-embedded to my SD card using

ipkg -d sd -force-depends install konqueror-embedded

, because the package doesn't seem to understand that I have a newer libqpe2 installed (the package seems to want a libqpe2 newer than the snapshot, but I have that).  Then I got opie to recognize the package source by running

ipkg-link mount /mnt/card/packages

and refreshing the package list from the opie GUI.

Now, I'm trying to install the media player and I can't seem to find a libxine1.  I've seen the thread here ( https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showt...iaplayer2&st=15 ), specifically in reference to this package, but I can't seem to find it in any of the feeds.  Help?

In general, I'm very happy now that I've gotten this far.  However, finding out how to do all this has been a bit painful.

I'd like to contribute better documentation (forums are rather painful for documentation, and the blog doesn't appear to be updated often) so I found the thread on docs ( https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=10775&st=30 ), but it appears to be dead.

I'd highly recommend someone in the OZ / OE projects blessing a particular wiki and allowing users to update that.  I'll volunteer to move the docs over to a wiki.  This allows decentralized control over the documentation so people can update as they figure things out.

So, I'm pretty happy with all this but I'm sort of stuck as to where to go.  I think having a standard place for docs, FAQ, and other HOWTOs outside the forums is a good start to allowing semi-technical folks to scratch their own itches.

I found that it took me a good week just to find enough information to cobble together to get konqueror installed.  Most of my friend's with Z's don't use them anymore because it's non-trivial to get all of the good stuff you guys are doing on to the device.  I'd love to get them back here and productive

Anyway, let me know if I'm missing something with the above questions, and I'd love to get some feedback on the docs.

Thanks again.