will oz-compat work on 3.5.1??

[dansawyer]

All,

Will the oz compat libs work on 3.5.1 ??

Dan

[jamesm]

Yes, people have had them working (assuming you're talking about the hentges.net ones).

I personally have spent a few hours fiddling with them in an attempt to get opera working, but to no avail as yet.

[mnmis]

I used oz-compat  to get hancommsheet to work. Seems fine by me.

[kic]

I've also spent a couple of hours trying to install them to no avail. It always ends up that the comat lib needs something else to be installed first, and trying to install those packages ends up with something that's already installed preventing them from being installed. (confused yet?)

Overall, it's been nothing but frustrating. I was hoping to get Opera to work, and then Wellenreiter (and I still can't get kismet to work properly), but I'm thinking I'm going to have to wipe the Z and install an older OZ so I can get these things to work.

If anyone has some suggetsions/advice on getting those libs to install, I'd appreciate it (as would others, it appears). I could get some specific errors if it'd help, as well.

[CoreDump]

I've also spent a couple of hours trying to install them to no avail. It always ends up that the comat lib needs something else to be installed first, and trying to install those packages ends up with something that's already installed preventing them from being installed. (confused yet?)

I take it you've downloaded the hentges.net oz-compat package.
It depends on opie-sh-micro witch is just a normal opie-sh package without the "howto" / HTML files and without an empty Opie-SH tab.

Remove opie-sh and install opie-sh-micro or just install oz-compat with --force-depends.

Overall, it's been nothing but frustrating. I was hoping to get Opera to work, and then Wellenreiter

Opera works fine w/ oz-compat. WR works out-of-the-box.

HTH

[dansawyer]

opie-sh-micro does not appear to be part of the feed.

It looks as though the --force-depends option will be the way to go.

Dan

[CoreDump]

opie-sh-micro does not appear to be part of the feed.

It looks as though the --force-depends option will be the way to go.

Dan

No, it is in the feed he got his oz-compat from

[kic]

I take it you've downloaded the hentges.net oz-compat package.
It depends on opie-sh-micro witch is just a normal opie-sh package without the "howto" / HTML files and without an empty Opie-SH tab.

Remove opie-sh and install opie-sh-micro or just install oz-compat with --force-depends.

Yes, the 3 files or so. That was a fun bit of googling to find what the files were and where they were hiding.

I believe one of the complaints was that the various packages needed so many dependencies that I was trying to install each of those, even though it really appeared they were there, just in newer form it didn't recognize. I was afraid if I removed those packages to install a "fresh" version of things it might break other software since it needs the newer versions.

I hadn't tried the --force-depends option yet, so I'll give that a try. Man, my *ix is rustier than than that nail I stepped on in the desert so many years ago.

Opera works fine w/ oz-compat. WR works out-of-the-box.

HTH

Opera was my main concern, since Konqueror while serviceable, isn't exactly what I'm looking for. If firefox would have worked (I'm sure I broke something with the various things I've been installing/removing) I would be happy with that. I'm using the real deal as I type this.

Wellenreiter complained about dependencies when trying to grab the package. Once again, I think what it needs is there, but it just doesn't know it.

I also think some of my problems may stem from me installing OZ onto pdaxrom. I somewhat figured I'd get the option to format before installing OZ, but I never saw that, so I can only figure it installed everything on top (and seeing a file in /home that doesn't come on any normal out of the box installation confirmed that). I think I'd like to wipe this thing and put OZ on again, fresh this time, and see how things go. I just need to look into a quicker way to remove everything than to rm -R *, or however the proper syntax is.

At any rate, thanks for the quick and informative reply. I'll try tackling this later when I have more time. Off to work now.

[jamesm]

I also think some of my problems may stem from me installing OZ onto pdaxrom. I somewhat figured I'd get the option to format before installing OZ, but I never saw that, so I can only figure it installed everything on top (and seeing a file in /home that doesn't come on any normal out of the box installation confirmed that). I think I'd like to wipe this thing and put OZ on again, fresh this time, and see how things go. I just need to look into a quicker way to remove everything than to rm -R *, or however the proper syntax is.

Interesting situation you describe about the old pdaxrom apps hanging around after reflashing.

I flashed onto a 5600 straight over the top of the original Sharp ROM and have encountered similar problems.

I have since tried out the 5600 specific "Watapon" ROM, the instructions for which say that after upgrading you should perform a format from the maintenance menu as well.

Could this also be the case with OZ? I don't remember seeing any instructions to do so in the OE wiki or the OZ website, but I think I'll give it another try tonight. Can anyone confirm or deny that this would cause problems?