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Re: more or less

Quote:

Originally Posted by fnordianslip (Post 439268)

Ah, but it can't be in both repos, as developers would have both configured in their scratchbox. I use the SDK repo on my N900 to get tools such as less, but it is probably best to be careful with what you install from there as stuff in that repo isn't optified.

That's what Pinning is for ;)

Re: more or less

Quote:

Originally Posted by jsuggs (Post 439231)

I know its not what you are really looking for but...

ln -s /bin/more /bin/less

At least until you get less actually ported you don't have to change your behavior.

:)

Actually I alwyas yous the 'm' command.
M is aliased to less inthe .profile file, or when less is not there to m:

alias m=less

Re: more or less

All, thanks for all the info! I've got less on my n900 now.

To summarise:

I got it via aspidites suggestion by adding the TOOLS repository "http://repository.maemo.org fremantle/tools free" to
the apt sources, and then running "apt-get less".

I'm not familiar with apt (am more a fedora guy...) but I noticed all repositories can be browsed via <url>/pool
(e.g. the http://repository.maemo.org/extras repo can be browsed via http://repository.maemo.org/extras/pool),
but this does not work for TOOLS repo.

Adding the SDK repository http://repository.maemo.org/pool/fremantle/free/ as suggested by Matan did not work.
I can browse this repository on the web, but adding it to the repositories (using application manager or using
aspidites way) did not work. I get the following error:

Failed to fetch http://repository.maemo.org/dists/fr...armel/Packages

So I could not run "apt-get less" from SDK repo.

Als also wanted to add the 'bc' package. I can see it in the SDK repository, but it is not in the
TOOLS repo...

Re: more or less

On the N800 the bc package from SDK worked on the device. Simply download the _armel package and install it with dpkg -i