Author Topic: Install Packages (Read 7313 times)

glarranyaga · « **on:** April 17, 2005, 07:37:06 am »

Hello,

im trying to install some Opie PIMs i have downloaded. i have all the ipks in an SD card, but when i try to install one, i always need to install more and more packages. I have all in the sd card, but the package manager dont recognize/install then automatically, and do it by hand is horrible. Please, gimme a solution (i have no Wifi card to do it over the internet.). Thanks.

lardman · « **Reply #1 on:** April 17, 2005, 10:32:10 am »

Create a local feed - you need to create a Packages file. Try using ipkg-utils from the handhelds cvs unless there was one (Packages file) where you got the files - in which case place that in the same dir on your SD card and add the dir as a local feed.

Si

glarranyaga · « **Reply #2 on:** April 17, 2005, 11:01:46 am »

ok, thank very much. So, i must create anb ipkg file with all the packages i would like to install and then ... (please, escecify a little bit more, cuz im a newby), and thats all. i hope that it works.

pd: it could be a package a file named something likeopie-1.0.3.tar.bz2

?. that file is in the same place where the PIMs i would like to install is. (http://opie.handhelds.org/feed/unsupported/stable/source/)

Thanks for all.

lardman · « **Reply #3 on:** April 17, 2005, 11:48:03 am »

Ah, no.

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pd: it could be a package a file named something likeopie-1.0.3.tar.bz2 ?. that file is in the same place where the PIMs i would like to install is. (http://opie.handhelds.org/feed/unsupported/stable/source/)

This is the source, unless you have a cross-compiler set up you need to find a feed with the binary packages (called *.ipk) in it.

The Packages file is just a flat text file which contains info about each ipk in the directory (it's called Packages).

Look here for example for an example feed directory, some ipk files and a Packages file: http://familiar.handhelds.org/releases/v0.8.2/feed/updates/

Si

glarranyaga · « **Reply #4 on:** April 20, 2005, 03:52:18 pm »

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add the dir as a local feed

What do you mean when you say this ?.

Thnaks for your patience.

lardman · « **Reply #5 on:** April 21, 2005, 05:13:35 am »

Create a directory, place ipk files in it, create a Packages file (ipkg-utils, or copy and existing one), add the directory as a src entry in /etc/ipkg/some-new-feed-name.conf (copy one of the existing ones and edit the contents, using file:// instead of http://)

Si

glarranyaga · « **Reply #6 on:** April 23, 2005, 07:22:28 am »

ok, thanks for all, now i know how to install my packages.

But actually u have another problem. When i dont install the packages in the "root" source, the package manager out problems related with the linking. How can i solve then?.

Thanks

lardman · « **Reply #7 on:** April 23, 2005, 09:58:44 am »

They may not be real problems - ipkg attempts to produce symlinks for each file and directory in the package - some of these will exist already (the directories) so the symlink will fail, but this is not a problem as any files in the directory will already have been symlinked.

Si

glarranyaga · « **Reply #8 on:** April 24, 2005, 05:34:26 am »

Hi, now i could install all the packages without any problem, but when they are installed, the opie told me that it couldnt find the package (fe, snake.ipk, media player). And something more strange, some of the programs included in the opie also didnt work (like package manager).

Plz help me.

lardman · « **Reply #9 on:** April 25, 2005, 06:54:38 am »

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the opie told me that it couldnt find the package (fe, snake.ipk, media player)

Where did you install them? Did you restart Opie (to refresh the icons)?

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And something more strange, some of the programs included in the opie also didnt work (like package manager).

I understand there are still some issues with package manager, however it does run and work to an extent. I never use it, I always use ipkg from the command line so I can't comment on it specifically.

Si

glarranyaga · « **Reply #10 on:** April 25, 2005, 09:11:36 am »

iÂ´ve tried to install the packages in every place (sd, root, ram), but i always had the same problem. And when i install then, not just the package manager didnt work, the other pims that the opie have also didnt work (calculator, network, ...).

glarranyaga · « **Reply #11 on:** April 25, 2005, 04:19:51 pm »

Actually the only problem i have is that i cant access the new PIMs i install, because the system tell me that it cant locate the packages. I dont know if its because the linking ptoblems or what, but i think is a bit strange. Maybe is because im using the opie 3.5.3 (so new

).

Thanks.

lardman · « **Reply #12 on:** April 25, 2005, 05:34:47 pm »

I don't think it's because OZ 3.5.3 is new, I've used it and not had any troubles.

Can you post the exact details for one of your non-working packages please? E.g:

What the package is (and where it came from).
Where you tried to install it.
How you tried to run it, and error messages you received.

Si

glarranyaga · « **Reply #13 on:** April 26, 2005, 09:18:42 am »

i download all the package form here:

http://opie.handhelds.org/feed/unsupported...ble/openzaurus/

i have also downloades some other libraries that the package manager told me that were needed:

libc6
libjpe62
libpng2
zlib1g

i installed those libreries in the sd card.

the rest of the packages ive installed it in the sd, ram and root (everywhere, just to try if there i have no problems). Then i press the upgrade option in the package manager (ive also tried not to press the upgrade option).

Then, i go to the icon i have on the desktop and try to execute the app, but then i have the error: "could not locate the application ... snake, opie-sheet, opie-irc, opie-mail, tetrix,..."

Thanks.

glarranyaga · « **Reply #14 on:** April 28, 2005, 01:30:04 pm »

Do you have any suggestion of what the problem could be ?.

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