Problems installing packages

[phillvs]

Hi all,

I need help if you can spare the time.  

Bought a C860 several months ago. Love the pdaXrom Rom but have had lots of problems. Here I am at the moment.

Flashed Kathrin RC3 to the C860

Changed the Hermes.conf to use my Origo WiFi card. - Works very well. Browsing the internet fine.

Opened the package manager and entered the www.pdaxrom.org/feed2 as the feed. Now I use the "Available" tab to see what packages I can install. Now 'click' on Gnumeric (for example) and install button to install Gnumeric and all its dependencies.

Alas! I get errors -

Downloading http://www.pdaxrom.org/feed/gnumeric_1.2.12_armv5tel.ipk ...
ipkg_download: ERROR: Failed to retrieve
http://www.pdaxrom.org/feed/gnumeric_1.2.12_armv5tel.ipk, returning
ipkg_get_install: Perhaps you need to run 'ipkg update' ?
ipkg_remove: Package does not appear to be installed in /
Downloading http://www.pdaxrom.org/feed/Packages ...
ipkg_download: ERROR: Failed to retrieve http://www.pdaxrom.org/feed/Packages,
returning
Downloading http://www.pdaxrom.org/feed/Packages
ipkg_download: ERROR: Failed to retrieve http://www.pdaxrom.org/feed/Packages, returning

Similarly, I get errors when trying an ipkg upgrade as suggested.

Another solution is to install from the SD card. Well, this doesn't work either. In this case I download the packages from the 'feed2' feed and then tried to install manually. Unfortunately that didn't work either. I get errors with this as well.

Has anyone got any suggestions how to sort this out please.

Phill

[phillvs]

Hi All

To continue with my previous post ........

Have discovered a file - /etc/ipkg.conf

in this file a line - www.pdaxrom.org/feed - seems to indicate the feed to use. Now I may have something wrong here but as I understand it, it should point to - www.pdaxrom.org/feed2 .

So I edited the file and tried to replace the original but get an error message. The "device is full"  (think that is what it said) Is this correct? Can't I edit files in /etc ? Tried other files but again dicovered that the same message. Just to check I edited other files on th SD card, for example, and had no problem. What am I doing wrong?

Please help. Thanks in advance

Phill

[diesel1]

Hi,
Try df in a console and you will find that your / partition is full.  You must remove some packages from / then you can edit files on there.

I try to find what I want to install with qpkg then edit the ipkg.conf file to make
dest root /   to /mnt/card and change feed, then use ipkg install to add packages to my system.
Hope you can understand this.  

Simon.

[Bundabrg]

Hi Phil,

I've also recently got a C860. NIce device if a bit heavier than my old palm m500...

Do a df to check what space you have.  During the initial install of rc3, one of the options is to resize your root and user "partitions". You may still have the default and have too small a root (which may explain the wget problems If its too small, reflash and size it correctly.

I have an 80Mb root, rest for user (mounted on /home).

Also if space is not the problem for the ipkg, try manually downloading a file by dropping to the shell and executing wget http://blah.com.etc  and see if anything comes down. It may be a proxy/nat issue. (can you ping a external site?).

Sorry if what I've said is complex, Im assuming you know some linux. I can write in more detail if you need more detailed assistance.

 - BRG

[phillvs]

Bundabrq and diesel 1

Thanks for the help and this is where I am now ....

Have re-flashed RC3 again but with an 80 MB partition this time. Now the ipkg.conf file (and others) are editable.

WiFi card works fine (after editing hermes.conf) No problem with ping.

Have looked at wget and, after some trial and error, got to download the entire feed2 site onto the 256 MB SD card. I still get installation errors though. Have used the GUI and after your suggestions have used the command line to install.

For example, tried to install thunderbird..

from the /mnt/card/www.pdaxrom.com/feed2/ directory I do...
ipkg install Thunderbird_0.6_armv5tel.ipk

and get an ERROR for the dependencies.

So, with the same syntax I installed all of the other dendencies but each one comes up with a dependency error. Others come up with the error "ERROR unpacking control.tar.gz"  

What can you suggest?

Many thanks

Phill

UPDATE:

If I install to the root directory (/) rather than the SD card (/mnt/card) then it installs much better. The only thing is that I have to sort out the dependencies manually.

Phill