Installing Packages And Ipkg-link

[Cybernoid]

Hi all!

I have had my Zaurus (SL-5500) since 2002, but just yesterday installed OZ 3.5.2... surprisingly without much difficultly.

I really like OZ better than the Sharp Rom.  Konqueror works great, BTW.  VNC Viewer finally works, and most of the Games I like work...

My question is, however, how do I install packages to my SD card without having to run ipkg-link to place the links into /root?

I can install the packages just fine to a CompactFlash Card, to a SD Card or to RAM, but opie never sees these, until I run ipkg-link and restart opie.

Is there a better way to do this?  Is there an option somewhere that says to automatically install links or to look for installed packages on other media?

Thanks,
Chris

[lardman]

but opie never sees these, until I run ipkg-link and restart opie.

This is normal. ipkg-link normally only has to be run once for each package (or mount point if you use 'ipkg-link mount <mount point>' like I do).

This ipkg-link'ing and restarting the GUI was previously performed automatically by aqpkg, but for some reason isn't at the moment. Despite having a memory leak, opie-packagemanager does away with ipkg-link and creates the same symlinks for you automatically when you install a package. I imagine it also does an opie restart when you close the app.


Simon

[Cybernoid]

This ipkg-link'ing and restarting the GUI was previously performed automatically by aqpkg, but for some reason isn't at the moment. Despite having a memory leak, opie-packagemanager does away with ipkg-link and creates the same symlinks for you automatically when you install a package. I imagine it also does an opie restart when you close the app.

Thanks for the info.  However, I am not using aqpkg.  I am using opie-packagemanager, clicking on "Actions->Install Local Packages", selecting the package, selecting "SD", and it says something to the effect of:

"Installing.."
"Configuring..."

But no symlinks are created automatically for me.

Interestingly enough, if I use opie-packagemanager to install, then run ipkg-link, then uninstall using opie-packagemanager, packagemanager says "removing links..."

Is there an option somewhere for not allowing opie-packagemanager to install the symlinks automatically?

Thanks,
Chris

[Cybernoid]

Hmm, interesting...

If I install packages from the network (over my 802.11 card) from the feed directly, opie-packagemanager installs the symlinks, but if I download the ipk files to my CompactFlash card, then install the packages to my SD Card... no links...  

I think this is a bug...