Trying to setup Chinook Scratchbox
 

Hello,

I am trying to setup a clean scratchbox for Chinook and the downloads fail miserably, anyone else have these issues? Solutions?

Thanks,
Edward

Re: Trying to setup Chinook Scratchbox
 

Well the VMware virtual machine works for me, although it was released during the beta phase and I'm not entirely sure that the 'apt-get dist-upgrade' i did has brought it in line with the OS2008 release version.

http://maemovmware.garage.maemo.org/

It's a big download, over 1GB IIRC, but at least it doesn't come from maemo.org but via torrent.

Hope this helps

Re: Trying to setup Chinook Scratchbox
 

Hello,

I really need the latest chinook as I have the latest on the n810... Beta built packages end up not installing without using by hand installers it appears.

Thanks though.
Edward

Re: Trying to setup Chinook Scratchbox
 

If you're running Linux, you can try this:

http://www.progbox.co.uk/wordpress/?p=453

-T.

Re: Trying to setup Chinook Scratchbox
 

Hi

I have also downloaded this VM, it extracts to around 5.6 gig in all.

I then chucked it on an external drive using Moka5 so I can carry it around with me.

http://www.moka5.com/

Now all I need is some pointers on where to start with regards development.

ttfn

Dave

Re: Trying to setup Chinook Scratchbox
 

Add me to those having issues setting up the dev environment. I have an ubuntu 7.10 vm on my iMac. Scratchbox installed without issue and I had no problem adding me as a user. When I run the SDK installer, I get a ton of messages saying size mismatch when trying to download some packages and it errors out with the following:

Size mismatch
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
E: Unable to install maemo-sdk-dev on CHINOOK_X86 target.
E: Please check the sources.list for errors.
E: Scratchbox login returned error 100.


Any ideas? ->BTW, I'm new to maemo, but not really new to Linux

Thanks!
KF

Re: Trying to setup Chinook Scratchbox
 

Ignore me... This is also related to repo's having issues since update. When I browse to one of the packages, the name links to a HTML page saying the service is temporarily unavailable instead of the actual package. I guess patience is just going to have to be a virtual here.

Thanks
KF

Re: Trying to setup Chinook Scratchbox
 

I've tried using the VMWare appliance...lit's a nice idea, and scratchbox works fine...in fact, it's the only way I've been able to get scratchbox set up on my x86_64 machine.

The problem I'm having with the VMWare image is that there isn't enough disk space in the image for me to work with Qt, Qtopia, and any applications. I've removed extraneous packages, but it's still too tight. Given that the scratchbox login runs within a chroot'ed environment, it doesn't see external storage (ie., USB keys) that are available to the VMWare image.

[As I'm typing this message, I'm realizing that I may just need to add the /dev entries within the chroot environment.] Any other suggestions for making more storage available to the scratchbox environment within the VMWare image?

Re: Trying to setup Chinook Scratchbox
 

this looks really promising:

https://garage.maemo.org/projects/maemo-sdk/

(follow the link to the home page)

Re: Trying to setup Chinook Scratchbox
 

anybody get the downloads to work? I'm getting the same errors as killerfish

Re: Trying to setup Chinook Scratchbox
 

I can get scratchbox to install cleanly on my machine, but downloading the SDK itself fails due to the known repo problems. I can adjust the apt sources withing scratchbox itself as a workaround but this gets overwritten when running the SDK installer script :(

Re: Trying to setup Chinook Scratchbox
 

Hello,

Still 'size mismatch' issues as of 12/28.... I would gladly mirror the repositories if they would let me. This is really an anoyance... Since the upgrade the Maemo repositories have been very unstable. If Nokia expects lots of usage for devices delivered at Xmas they have a funny way of showing it... WIth the repositories not working, there is almost no way to install applications.... One failure and people will give up... It took me DAYS to get my applications back after the upgrade and they are not all there yet. I get Squid errors and incomplete downloads.

Best regards,
Edward

Re: Trying to setup Chinook Scratchbox
 

Hello,

See http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...401#post117401 for the fix!

-Edward

Re: Trying to setup Chinook Scratchbox
 

I have the same problem with setting up the Chinook SDK and to me it looks like the Thread you pointed out only deals with the problem of installing software on the tablet which thanks to the temporary repository fix works flawlessly.
Any idea how to get the SDK installing?

Re: Trying to setup Chinook Scratchbox
 

i managed to install the chinook SDK. i failed before because of the files not being correctly downloaded from the broken repository. if i remember correctly, the following steps were necessary.

- after a failed installation i did remove the scratchbox installation (the /scratchbox dir and the debs on my ubuntu system) and started over again.

- after the successful execution of "maemo-scratchbox-install_4.0.sh", i went into scratchbox and changed the repository entries in /etc/apt/sources.list from "repository.maemo.org" to "stage.maemo.org". to make sure, i did an "apt-get update". you have to do this in *both* targets (change with "sb-menu").

- i edited "maemo-sdk-install_4.0.sh" and changed line 18 to "__url=http://stage.maemo.org/stable/chinook", before i ran the script.

Re: Trying to setup Chinook Scratchbox
 

Hello,

Or you can change /etc/hosts and /scratchbox/etc/hosts to include a reference to the temporary ip address. Either method works toget the dev version installed.

Edward