Sorry to be so pedestrian, but I am a complete beginner to this Linux malarkey...
I'm having the same problem with an ipkg error message.
Can anyone tell me HOW to edit the /usr/lib/....... file.
I'm talking big print for VERY slow students here - along the lines of:
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Thanks,
Neil
If you don't mind, before I get into the nitty gritty line by line stuff, let me first suggest you install a text editor. Unless you'd like to get to know vi up close and personal (it may not be a bad idea, but it's not a very friendly program to new users), you'd probably be better off with a plain text editor first.
Do you have an SD or CF card? I hope so as it'll make life easier. I'm not positive that this will work on Sharp's rom (I'm using Cacko now, but it's based on Sharp's, so I'd guess it'll be fine), but grab zeditor. Here's where to look:
http://bryandeluca.com/feed/ (great feed from one of the ZUG users, thanks!) and
here's a direct link to the zeditor package. You can either add that link to the network feed, or if you're not sure how to do that, just download the package somewhere (onto a card, onto your computer and then move it to a card, whatever) and then you still should (I hope) be able to use the package manager to install it (it'll check inserted media for packages available to install). If for some reason the package manager won't install it, open a console and cd to whatever directory it's in (an SD card can be located in /mnt/card for instance) and do an ipkg install -d root zeditorpackagename here (the -d root is just going to tell it to install it to the internal flash, and you can also cheat and type "zed" (or some such) and hit "Tab" and it'll auto-complete the file name for you to make sure there's no typos).
Install that, and assuming (ack!) it doesn't give you any problems installing, you can now get to editing some files. Before that, I'd suggest tapping on the icon and holding the stylus down and select the option to the run the program as root. Some people might not like that, but so long as you're careful, it saves trouble (I'm lazy, so sue me).
With zeditor you can now just "Open" and navigate to whatever directory, open the file, make your changes, save, and give it a go with installing.
Since I'm not entirely hip to the error(s) you guys are having, I can't offer any more specific details than what has already been offered.
If something is unclear or I completely skipped some steps, feel free to call me on it. I think this should be enough to get you going though.
