Re: Navit on N900
 

Guys, what about making a document that will always contain the most up to date instructions for installing navit. Frankly speaking I don't see it encouraging to go through the 44 pages (they will be much more later on), what about creating a certain thread that's locked for editing that would only contain the most up to date instructions, and make this thread to answer questions or report bugs?
Anyone see this interesting? Just an idea and please share your thoughts about it.
Thanks a lot,
Ahmed

Re: Navit on N900
 

You're describing a wiki page... feel free to create/update the one for navit at http://wiki.maemo.org/navit.

This post is the easiest way to have a functional installation (of version 3479). There is a somewhat newer version (3541) available (at http://www.chollya.org/navit/) dated Aug 30. To install that, follow the instructions in that post, but do a search and replace of 3479 with 3541 on the install script (and on the remove script if you use it) before executing it. I haven't tested that version yet.

Re: Navit on N900
 

.... and got my custom map from open street map [.bin file]

I have can confirm same problem as blueicon, with the latest from www.chollya.org. I used the map generator web page for custom map, but they would not work. Remove them from map directory.

The pre-made maps from gloudmade work. The web page generated map format is different, for example Linux unzip cannot handle them properly. Also using maptool to generate navit map from .osm format map works.

If you cant use pre-made maps, there are instructions to cut your own region and use maptool in

http://wiki.navit-project.org/index.php/OpenStreetMaps

Not as convenient as using the web page map generator.

Re: Navit on N900
 

Thanks a million sconf, it works now, you made my day :)
I notice there is a little problem, the addresses in Arabic are not displayed properly on the map, Arabic letters should be concatenated while they are not concatenated on the map.The Arabic address letters displayed in the status bar below the map are just rectangular shapes.
Also there are some problems with icons...
any help in that? :)

Re: Navit on N900
 

The gps symbol keeps blinking. After some seconds navit crashed then.

Re: Navit on N900
 

Hi,

EDIT: I have got past the first problem (below) now (no idea how!!!), but now during the process, it errors with:

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E: could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 resource temporarily unavailble)
E: unable to lock the adminsitration directory (/var/lib/dpk/g/), is another process using it?
.
Downloading Navit packages...
./navit-install.txt: line 10: wget: not found
./navit-install.txt: line 13: wget: not found
./navit-install.txt: line 16: wget: not found
./navit-install.txt: line 19: wget: not found
Unable to download packages. Connect to the network fist and/or try again later.
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I am connected to internet via WiFi with no other apps open (other than wifi)


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(Original Problem Below, now fixed)
I'm having problems with Flandry's installation instructions post (http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=383). I'm a newbie so please bear with me.

I have rootsh installed.
Go into x_terminal and I:

type: "mv MyDocs/navit-install.txt ."
hit enter
receive error : "mv: cannot preserve ownership of './navit-install.txt': operation not permitted"

am lost... should be writing the whole 5 lines of code in one line? if so, how do I create a line break without submitting the first line? confused!
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Thanks

Re: Navit on N900
 

First error was caused by having App Mananger or FApMan open at the time.

The second "error" is just a warning and isn't actually a problem. You'll always get that when moving files from the FAT filesystem of MyDocs to the Ext filesystem of home or opt because of mismatches in filesystem features.

Re: Navit on N900
 

Thanks, that's solved it! :)

I'm now getting Error 404 on chollya.org on a number of instances during 'downloading navit packages'.

This simply due to server load/server being down, and just a case of trying later?

Thanks

EDIT:

Looking at the 404 errors:

It is, in one instance for example, trying to get:
http://www.chollya.org/navit/navit-g...3479_armel.deb

However, browsing into:

http://www.chollya.org/navit/

This above file doesn't exist -- but http://www.chollya.org/navit/navit-g...3541_armel.deb does -- slightly diferent ~xxxx

I think this is the case for a number of files. Is this therefore a problem with the script requested outdated files?

Thanks

Re: Navit on N900
 

You're right. He released new packages yesterday and that pushed the version the script looks for off the server. I've updated the install script (in this post) to use the release from yesterday. I haven't tested that version, so please let me know how it works for you.

Re: Navit on N900
 

Hey,

Thanks for that. The script seemed to work fine, and ended in Success!

Now however, I don't have the Navit icon to load it from --- can't see it anywhere... am I missing a step?

Thanks