Two Hentges (and Oz) Questions

[Storm]

I reflashed and things seem to be going much better. Apparently part of the problem was, in fact, aqpkg. The other piece of it was I was much more cautious in installing software. There are still several packages which I would like to have, like Zethereal, but I need to figure out what I have to do to install it right.

A couple of questions regarding packages:

1. I tried to install autoconf and automake, but both failed because of missing requirements...In this case, perl. Perl does not appear in the OZ feeds. What is the correct way to install perl on the Zaurus?

2. Coredump - Could you, in future releases, install bash? You install Konsole, which does not start with busybox's /bin/sh.

3. I'm trying to replace all of the functionality of busybox with the GNU apps (e.g. tar, sed, etc.). In my last post, I found sort in coreutils. However, when I tried to install coreutils, it attempted to replace /bin/[, so the installation fails and most bash functions afterward fail. I wound up having to reflash at this point, because everything including command line logic doesn't work. What is the best way to install coreutils?

Thanks,
--Storm

[CoreDump]

I reflashed and things seem to be going much better. Apparently part of the problem was, in fact, aqpkg. The other piece of it was I was much more cautious in installing software. There are still several packages which I would like to have, like Zethereal, but I need to figure out what I have to do to install it right.

A couple of questions regarding packages:

1. I tried to install autoconf and automake, but both failed because of missing requirements...In this case, perl. Perl does not appear in the OZ feeds. What is the correct way to install perl on the Zaurus?

Sounds like yet anothor missing dependency from the 3.5.3 feeds.

2. Coredump - Could you, in future releases, install bash? You install Konsole, which does not start with busybox's /bin/sh.

Not going to happen sorry. Bash is too large to be included in a Collie image.

3. I'm trying to replace all of the functionality of busybox with the GNU apps (e.g. tar, sed, etc.). In my last post, I found sort in coreutils. However, when I tried to install coreutils, it attempted to replace /bin/[, so the installation fails and most bash functions afterward fail. I wound up having to reflash at this point, because everything including command line logic doesn't work. What is the best way to install coreutils?

Thanks,
--Storm
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No idea.

[Borealid]

I reflashed and things seem to be going much better. Apparently part of the problem was, in fact, aqpkg. The other piece of it was I was much more cautious in installing software. There are still several packages which I would like to have, like Zethereal, but I need to figure out what I have to do to install it right.

A couple of questions regarding packages:

1. I tried to install autoconf and automake, but both failed because of missing requirements...In this case, perl. Perl does not appear in the OZ feeds. What is the correct way to install perl on the Zaurus?

2. Coredump - Could you, in future releases, install bash? You install Konsole, which does not start with busybox's /bin/sh.

3. I'm trying to replace all of the functionality of busybox with the GNU apps (e.g. tar, sed, etc.). In my last post, I found sort in coreutils. However, when I tried to install coreutils, it attempted to replace /bin/[, so the installation fails and most bash functions afterward fail. I wound up having to reflash at this point, because everything including command line logic doesn't work. What is the best way to install coreutils?

Thanks,
--Storm
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Installing coreutils Works for Me ™ - but then again, I'm using 3.5.4-dev instead of 3.5.3.

About bash - have you tried simply installing bash and then linking /bin/sh to /bin/bash?  Bash is sh-compatible...

[CoreDump]

  Bash is sh-compatible...
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That must be the understatement of the year    (remember that we are talking about busybox sh)

[StomaKC]

Perl does not appear in the OZ feeds. What is the correct way to install perl on the Zaurus?
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Some time ago, while testing OZ/GPE, I found Perl packages in [a href=\"http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/sfeed/]"sfeed" feed[/url]. Version 5.8.7.

It's working perfectly well on OZ 3.5.4RC1. If nroff is not installed, perldoc will make you read pod directly. Not a great deal.

Maybe is there an actual feed providing newer versions.

[Storm]

Installing coreutils Works for Me ™ - but then again, I'm using 3.5.4-dev instead of 3.5.3.

I tried this both on 3.5.3 months ago and on the latest Hentges 3.5.4. Do you remember how you did it? I installed from the command line with  

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ipkg -d sd install coreutils
ipkg-link add coreutils
The ipkg-link fails (as do subsequent bash commands) with failure to locate /bin/[ ...Did you install to sd or to ram?

About bash - have you tried simply installing bash and then linking /bin/sh to /bin/bash?  Bash is sh-compatible...
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I know. I have it installed, I just thought it might be installed in with Hentges. But as Coredump said, its too large.

--Storm