OK, I'll have to take this up again because I got no real answers here. Telling me to use ipkg is really no answer at all and defeats what a forum is for. The answer I would expect from all you experienced, over a thousand post people would be somewhat along these lines:
"If you flash your SL6000 with gpe and the latest 3.5.3 version you will be left with an almost unusable Zaurus. To get it up to par with Opie or the Sharp ROM or Zynergy, you need to install the following packages:
- the following lib ipks...
- package such and such
- package bla bla bla....
...etc.
Do so using ipkg from a terminal issuing:
ipkg <options (and say what options!)> <.ipk file>
After doing this you may have a decent enough Zaurus."
Now THAT IS A FRIGGIN ANSWER!!!
So if you guys don't know the answer please be so kind as to point me to a section of this forum where I can get a real answer. I see no NEWBIE section either. The installation instructions at the OZ site don't even go past the instructions on how to flash the software, and I know that.
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case in point.
The commandline will tell you what the dependencies needed are. to an extent it is still up to you (especially in gpe) to look in the feed repositories to find the file, and make sure, by editing /etc/ipkg.conf that the "subfeed" is lited properly.
for example, fro the case above.
you try:
<ipkg -d sd install gpe-filemanager>
(-d = destination and sd is the sd card btw)
ipkg basically tells you no, it won't do that because it can't find a file.
You look in the feeds (this is much easier if you mirror them btw) and find that the file is in feed/gnome
you fire up your editor --my favorite is nano-- and say
<nano /etc/ipkg.conf>
and add the line:
src gnome [a href=\"http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.3/feed/gnome]http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.3/feed/gnome[/url]
then do:
<ipkg update>
(to update your packages list)
and back to installing filemanager, which will now install just fine.
On a different note entirely --maybe this should be posted elsewhere?
the partitions in oz (on the 6k at least) aren't really optimal, are they?
Wouldn't it be better to work along the lines guylhem is and do 2 nand partitions?--diagnostic/enmergency and / then maybe consider enabling a /home that might live on a flash card? Gpe particularly would benefit from 57 megs of "program space"
