Newbie Question: Trouble Installing Applications

[joepmurf]

I am new at this so please be patient with me.  I have a Zaurus SL5500 with a 256mB SD card and any number of CF cards.  I recently installed OpenZaurus 3.5.3 with opie.  The installation went flawlessly.  I used the 64-0 memory model.

I ran into problems when I tried to install any applications.  I have tried the package manager that comes with the OZ 3.5.3 distribution, I have tried the command line, I have tried installing to the SD card and to ram with no success.  The feedback always comes back with something about libraries that are out of date.  I am assuming that the distribution contains all of the latest libraries, so it is likely operator error.

Does anyone have any suggestions?  Thanks for your help

Joe Murphy

[lardman]

Are you installing from the correct feed?

There was a minor problem with the version of ipkg that came with 3.5.3 iirc -> file versions that contain cvs (or something like that) were not correctly compared.

Assuming you're installing from the 3.5.3 feed just run ipkg (from the command line) with -force-depends to force the install despite the apparent version problems.


Si