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Flandry 2010-03-11 15:21
Re: App Manager Broken
 
I think you've managed to fall in the crack in the sanity of the Maemo 5 distribution: there's no built-in way to become root. This has been discussed but AFAIK not actually encountered by a normal user before. If HAM goes and can't be fixed without root privileges, flashing is the only way out.

Hopefully it won't come to that, though!

Rob1n 2010-03-11 15:24
Re: App Manager Broken
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by scomic55 (Post 563839)
Yeah, noobmonkey was right, it loads up in app manager and says that the application package was not found. Irritating.

Is there any other way to install it?
I think you can do so via R&D mode - I've never tried this myself though.

scomic55 2010-03-11 16:13
Re: App Manager Broken
 
hmmm well that isnt good. How about restoring it to factory settings or something like that. Would that help?

scomic55 2010-03-11 19:43
Re: App Manager Broken
 
So the general consensus is that my phone is pretty dead then as far as apps go then?

Rob1n 2010-03-11 19:53
Re: App Manager Broken
 
As I say, R&D mode might help, otherwise you'll need to reflash.

Rob1n 2010-03-11 19:55
Re: App Manager Broken
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob1n (Post 564223)
As I say, R&D mode might help, otherwise you'll need to reflash.
Actually, having said that, I had a sudden thought. The following works on my N900, but that could be down to rootsh - it's worth a try anyway. In X Terminal, run:
Code:
sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/apt/lists/partial

scomic55 2010-03-11 20:34
Re: App Manager Broken
 
How do you run X Terminal? I probably should have said I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to the more complex parts of the N900.

Also, how do you reflash it?

MohammadAG 2010-03-11 20:46
Re: App Manager Broken
 
You can try clicking on this to install rootsh http://repository.maemo.org/extras/p..._1.5_armel.deb
It should use dpkg not apt-get so it should work.

Rob1n 2010-03-11 21:51
Re: App Manager Broken
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by scomic55 (Post 564274)
How do you run X Terminal? I probably should have said I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to the more complex parts of the N900.

Also, how do you reflash it?
You run X Terminal by tapping on the application labelled "X Terminal" :p I think it's under the "More..." menu (but I've rearranged my menus so I can't be sure).

And for reflashing, see these instructions

Andre Klapper 2010-03-11 23:49
Re: App Manager Broken
 
No idea how technical you are, but I'd recommend to download the .deb package that MohammadAG linked to by saving it somewhere on the N900. Then start the X Terminal and take a look at dpkg to install that package manually. The home folder displayed in the N900 File Manager corresponds to /home/user/MyDocs , some subfolders in there are hidden and hence have a dot prefix, e.g. ".documents". See http://wiki.maemo.org/Installing_applications#dpkg .


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