Re: Accelerometer game proposal: sheepdog
 

You only have to find out where it is.. :-)
Then you put yourself in /home/user, that's where you are whenever you open a new xterm, or whenever you just enter 'cd' in an xterm.
Then specify the path to where the file is, e.g. tar zxvf MyDocs/sheep.tar or MyDocs/.documents/sheep.tar (you see, I don't know exactly which path is used for mass storage, I haven't used it). You can always find it with
find . -name sheep.tar
in an xterm.

Re: Accelerometer game proposal: sheepdog
 

Sorry - this is only my second ever venture into xteminal. Yeah, I really AM that much of a n00b!

I got as far as opening it, but I get 'permission denied'. :( I'm obviously doing something very stupid.

Re: Accelerometer game proposal: sheepdog
 

Sorry, I'm stupid...
Here is the package:

http://www.student.dtu.dk/~s081608/s....0.1_armel.deb

download it somewhere, copy to the device.
Go to Terminal.
Gain root.
Go to the directory, where the package is.

Do

You can now exit root (just type 'exit').
Type 'sheep'.
It should work :)

To remove (as root):

Re: Accelerometer game proposal: sheepdog
 

try executing

chmod 777 sheep_pack

This should allow you to open it.

Re: Accelerometer game proposal: sheepdog
 

@rcull, could you elaborate on those directions? Is it up and down (it can seem tricky)?

Re: Accelerometer game proposal: sheepdog
 

Ok, I'm not sure exactly what you did - what do you mean by 'opening' it?

The steps are:
1: Download the file, e.g. to your PC
2: Copy it to the N900. I _think_ it will end up in /home/user/MyDocs/ then.
3: Open an xterm
4: There should now be a file /home/user/MyDocs/sheep.tar, you can check with
5: Unpack it with the command
6: Run the program with
(Note leading '.' in ./sheep)

EDIT: hopbeat beat me to it with a proper .deb package.

Re: Accelerometer game proposal: sheepdog
 

Hopbeat

As I said it might be just my expectations but if I tilt the 900 forward I would expect the attractor to move forwards not backwards ( roll down the slope as it were ) the same with tilting left and right. :)

I'm surre I could eventually get used to it but it all seem diametrically opposite to what I instinctively expect.

Rick

Re: Accelerometer game proposal: sheepdog
 

./sheep: error while loading shared libraries: libQtGui.so.4 cannot open shared objec file: No such file or directory
~sheep_pack

(This may be terribly annoying for you but it's actually quite exciting for me... I'm actually working in Xterminal! :eek: )

Re: Accelerometer game proposal: sheepdog
 

@RevdKathy

gain root and do
This should fix the problem.

I know that it should be done through repo, but I just wanted to share how it looks right now and where it goes.

Re: Accelerometer game proposal: sheepdog
 

Ummm it won't let me do that, either. I suspect there are basic tools I don't have dlownloaded.

Now you're sorry you let yourself get talked into this by someone who knows ZILCH about code, aren't you. *sigh*

I want to see SHEEP! (Sobs)