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biketool 2011-06-27 15:55
Screen
 
Pretty much just want to install screen, I am very surprised it is not on the feeds other than here http://maemo.org/packages/view/screen/ but it wont install. I used screen constantly with my old Zaurus to grab podcasts SSH'ing from my laptop and then disconnect and let a wget script run on its own.

biketool 2011-06-30 10:01
Re: Screen
 
Nobody else wants screen without having to use debbie? Being console I would think a quick easy scratchbox compile would do the trick.

jd4200 2011-06-30 10:25
Re: Screen
 
It's in the repos

wget http://repository.maemo.org/pool/mae...+0m5_armel.deb

dpkg -i screen screen_4.0.3-0.3osso4+0m5_armel.deb

laasonen 2011-06-30 10:30
Re: Screen
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by jd4200 (Post 1042047)
It's in the repos

wget http://repository.maemo.org/pool/mae...+0m5_armel.deb

dpkg -i screen screen_4.0.3-0.3osso4+0m5_armel.deb
He just said:
Quote:
Originally Posted by biketool (Post 1040091)
...here http://maemo.org/packages/view/screen/ but it wont install.
Could you say why it won't install?

retsaw 2011-07-01 09:30
Re: Screen
 
Because he tried installing it through the App Manager, perhaps? I tried that first and it complained that it couldn't install it, then I downloaded it and installed it with dpkg and aside from a complaint that the post-install script couldn't find /usr/sbin/add-shell it installed fine and seems to work okay apart from an error on startup that says "Aborted because of window size change".

biketool 2011-07-08 08:39
Screen the App
 
Since most of us use a PC to connect and manage our devices and we mostly have a Linux/Unix background perhaps Screen should be added to the repositories.
For those who don't know screen allows a user to log in via SSH, start a program, and disconnect while the program or script continues to run.
I am surprised that this is not in the stable feed already as it is a standard Unix console application.

jedi 2011-07-08 08:53
Re: Screen the App
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by biketool (Post 1046932)
Since most of us use a PC to connect and manage our devices and we mostly have a Linux/Unix background perhaps Screen should be added to the repositories.
For those who don't know screen allows a user to log in via SSH, start a program, and disconnect while the program or script continues to run.
I am surprised that this is not in the stable feed already as it is a standard Unix console application.
Yes, you told us this last week... http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=74384

jedi 2011-07-08 09:06
Re: Screen
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by retsaw (Post 1042662)
Because he tried installing it through the App Manager, perhaps? I tried that first and it complained that it couldn't install it, then I downloaded it and installed it with dpkg and aside from a complaint that the post-install script couldn't find /usr/sbin/add-shell it installed fine and seems to work okay apart from an error on startup that says "Aborted because of window size change".
I've just tried installing too - and got the same error, but it installs and runs OK.

Code:
Nokia-N900:/home/user/MyDocs/tmp# dpkg -i screen_4.0.3-0.3osso4+0m5_armel.deb
Selecting previously deselected package screen.
(Reading database ... 58348 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking screen (from screen_4.0.3-0.3osso4+0m5_armel.deb) ...
Setting up screen (4.0.3-0.3osso4+0m5) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/screen.postinst: line 23: /usr/sbin/add-shell: not found
install-info(/usr/share/info/screen.info): no file /usr/share/info/dir, retrieving backup file /var/backups/infodir.bak.

cutehunk04 2011-07-08 09:26
Re: Screen
 
what excatly will it do ??

jedi 2011-07-08 09:34
Re: Screen
 
It allows you to keep a terminal session running on a host even after you've disconnected. And more.

Eg: http://www.rackaid.com/resources/lin...al-and-how-to/ and many, many, many others ;)

biketool 2011-07-08 09:35
Re: Screen
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by cutehunk04 (Post 1046962)
what excatly will it do ??
It lets you SSH in and emulate a local session that you can disconnect from and it will continue to run until you log back in and kill the session or you include an exit in your script.

I am curious why it is not in the mainline repos? It is pretty standard Linux stuff.

jedi 2011-07-08 09:45
Re: Screen
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by biketool (Post 1046967)
I am curious why it is not in the mainline repos? It is pretty standard Linux stuff.
'Cos no-one has got round to it?

This is a community, and you mentioned "I would think a quick easy scratchbox compile would do the trick", so why not contribute?

lma 2011-07-08 10:03
Re: Screen
 
It's in the SDK tools repo, see http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/...5#Installation

kingoddball 2011-07-08 11:06
Re: Screen the App
 
I'm sure multiple threads is how to get dev's to recompile programs...

sjgadsby 2011-07-08 11:09
Re: Screen
 
Duplicate threads merged. biketool, do not open multiple threads for the same topic.

biketool 2011-07-10 19:03
Re: Screen
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by jedi (Post 1046975)
This is a community, and you mentioned "I would think a quick easy scratchbox compile would do the trick", so why not contribute?
Yes I did a double thread, my bad, forgot I had already asked, so very sorry. Thank you all who contributed for the help.
I unfortunately don't have disk space on my / partition for scratchbox, turns out there was a working .deb if you DL it to local and install as per the thread.

AapoRantalainen 2011-07-10 20:41
Re: Screen
 
I took screen from sdk-repository, renamed it to the 'screen-n900' and pushed to the extras-devel.It seems to work on device. If you think so also, I can promote it to the extras-testing. (And change category to user/..)


Changes:
*removed whining line on postinst
("/var/lib/dpkg/info/screen.postinst: line 23: /usr/sbin/add-shell: not found"

*emoved whining line on postrm
("/var/lib/dpkg/info/screen-n900.postrm: line 17: /usr/sbin/remove-shell: not found"

*changed 'xterm' to the '*xterm' on screenrc
("Aborted because of window size change")

*dropped some dependencies
(${misc:Depends} = debconf, dpkg, install-info)

http://maemo.org/packages/view/screen-n900/


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