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kikujiro0208 2012-09-27 09:36
China branded N9 (PR 1.3) app questions
 
Hi all,

I have posted this in another thread (for N9/N950 devices), but since the questions are software related, therefore I post this again...

To make the story short, I have a China branded N9 missing apps like Skype, FB, Twitter...

I understand you need to firstly change the repos before you can install these missing apps...

What I got so far:
1) cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ (the outcome is 'not found', so I got stuck here already)

2) another option gave me this as outcome:

# apt-get update
# apt-cache search skype
l10n-app-skype - Translation File for application skype
telepathy-spirit - Skype connection manager for Telepathy
account-plugin-skype - Skype plugin for accounts-ui
# apt-get install account-plugin-skype
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done

Package account-plugin-skype is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source
E: Package account-plugin-skype has no installation candidate

3) Next trial gave me this outcome:
dpkg -i /home/user/MyDocs/account-plugin-skype_0.104.1+0m8_armel.deb

Aegis rejecting /home/user/blabla: could not open debian archive
aegis aborting dpkg -- all listed package files rejected
Compilation failed in require

So any suggestions on how to continue?

Many thanks in advance...

minimos 2012-09-27 10:10
Re: China branded N9 (PR 1.3) app questions
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by kikujiro0208 (Post 1272859)
What I got so far:
1) cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ (the outcome is 'not found', so I got stuck here already)
That directory *must* exists.
What if you go one level at a time:
cd /etc
cd apt
cd sources.list.d

Where does it fail?

chenliangchen 2012-09-27 10:21
Re: China branded N9 (PR 1.3) app questions
 
If you are using N9, just flash the global version then install the chinese dedicated apps such as weibo etc if you want. I do this on my N950. That's the easiest way. Changing repo may causing conflict between kernels, they use different ones after PR1.2.

An9 2012-09-27 21:41
Re: China branded N9 (PR 1.3) app questions
 
My N9 is org nokia for singapore region but it says is made in china, some hacking things does not seem to fully work like debian throgh schroot or so, the weaknes of wifi to...and i em stuck on fw.1.3 009...hm what a mistake i made, i can't fllash to 001!:(

kikujiro0208 2012-09-28 01:03
Re: China branded N9 (PR 1.3) app questions
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by minimos (Post 1272872)
That directory *must* exists.
What if you go one level at a time:
cd /etc
cd apt
cd sources.list.d

Where does it fail?
Hi minimos,

cd / etc (ok)
cd apt ('permission denied')...

It seems I cannot even open the most basic operations...

kikujiro0208 2012-09-28 01:04
Re: China branded N9 (PR 1.3) app questions
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by chenliangchen (Post 1272877)
If you are using N9, just flash the global version then install the chinese dedicated apps such as weibo etc if you want. I do this on my N950. That's the easiest way. Changing repo may causing conflict between kernels, they use different ones after PR1.2.
Hi chenliangchen,

Did you do the flashing yourself? Or do you know a place in Shanghai where I can perform this?...
Thanks...

kikujiro0208 2012-09-28 01:06
Re: China branded N9 (PR 1.3) app questions
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by An9 (Post 1273092)
My N9 is org nokia for singapore region but it says is made in china, some hacking things does not seem to fully work like debian throgh schroot or so, the weaknes of wifi to...and i em stuck on fw.1.3 009...hm what a mistake i made, i can't fllash to 001!:(
Hi An9,

My N9 is not even 2 weeks old, PR1.3 was installed when I got the phone... It seems that a lot of hackings/upgrades cannot be performed with PR1.3...

minimos 2012-09-28 07:18
Re: China branded N9 (PR 1.3) app questions
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by kikujiro0208 (Post 1273164)
cd / etc (ok)
cd apt ('permission denied')...
I hope you are running the commands as root, but anyway even if logged as 'user' you should be able to access /etc/apt directory.
This is from my device:
Code:
/etc $ ls -ald /etc/apt
drwxr-xr-x    6 root    root          4096 Apr  2 21:08 /etc/apt
How does that look in your case?

kikujiro0208 2012-09-28 11:08
Re: China branded N9 (PR 1.3) app questions
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by minimos (Post 1273255)
I hope you are running the commands as root, but anyway even if logged as 'user' you should be able to access /etc/apt directory.
This is from my device:
Code:
/etc $ ls -ald /etc/apt
drwxr-xr-x    6 root    root          4096 Apr  2 21:08 /etc/apt
How does that look in your case?
Hi minimos,
Thanks for your help.

1) /etc I get 'permission denied'
2) when I try ls -ald /etc/apt I get the following:

drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 May 27 01:48 /etc/apt

An9 2012-09-28 12:17
Re: China branded N9 (PR 1.3) app questions
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by kikujiro0208 (Post 1273168)
Hi An9,

My N9 is not even 2 weeks old, PR1.3 was installed when I got the phone... It seems that a lot of hackings/upgrades cannot be performed with PR1.3...
Sounds like we are not the only ones with this problems...how can we fix fllashing problem, bcz i know thare was working well things with fw.1.3....001 region.

kikujiro0208 2012-09-29 00:47
Re: China branded N9 (PR 1.3) app questions
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by An9 (Post 1273391)
Sounds like we are not the only ones with this problems...how can we fix fllashing problem, bcz i know thare was working well things with fw.1.3....001 region.
In this case, this would be sad... such a nice phone... I was hoping I could some basic apps... not more... :o

chenliangchen 2012-09-29 08:08
Re: China branded N9 (PR 1.3) app questions
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by chenliangchen (Post 1272877)
If you are using N9, just flash the global version then install the chinese dedicated apps such as weibo etc if you want. I do this on my N950. That's the easiest way. Changing repo may causing conflict between kernels, they use different ones after PR1.2.
You can perform this by yourself. If you know chinese you can try the dospy forum, they have detailed tutorials. Or you can try wiki page. PR1.3 is the best for hacks now. A lot of tweaks and Nitdroid only support PR1.3.

gunnsean 2012-09-29 09:46
Re: China branded N9 (PR 1.3) app questions
 
To even visit a system directory like /etc/apt/sources.list.d/, I think you do need root privileges.

That said, you need to devel-su and rootme, and then perform the cd command.

kikujiro0208 2012-09-30 05:17
Re: China branded N9 (PR 1.3) app questions
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by chenliangchen (Post 1273767)
You can perform this by yourself. If you know chinese you can try the dospy forum, they have detailed tutorials. Or you can try wiki page. PR1.3 is the best for hacks now. A lot of tweaks and Nitdroid only support PR1.3.
I did reading the dospy forums, tried but failed... maybe I have to look better...

kikujiro0208 2012-09-30 05:18
Re: China branded N9 (PR 1.3) app questions
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by gunnsean (Post 1273808)
To even visit a system directory like /etc/apt/sources.list.d/, I think you do need root privileges.

That said, you need to devel-su and rootme, and then perform the cd command.
I did, but with the command cd /apt I get 'permission denied'... ?
I don't get it...

minimos 2012-09-30 07:43
Re: China branded N9 (PR 1.3) app questions
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by kikujiro0208 (Post 1274178)
I did, but with the command cd /apt I get 'permission denied'... ?
I don't get it...
I hope you really type "cd /etc" and not e.g. "/etc", as that would cause a 'permission denied' error (that's because you are asking to execute directory /etc, whatever that would mean).

Here is it an example. to be clear, I typed commands only after the '#' prompt:
Code:
~ # /etc
sh: /etc: Permission denied
~ #
~ # cd /etc
/etc # cd apt
/etc/apt # cd sources.list.d
/etc/apt/sources.list.d #

kikujiro0208 2012-09-30 16:10
Re: China branded N9 (PR 1.3) app questions
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by minimos (Post 1274209)
I hope you really type "cd /etc" and not e.g. "/etc", as that would cause a 'permission denied' error (that's because you are asking to execute directory /etc, whatever that would mean).

Here is it an example. to be clear, I typed commands only after the '#' prompt:
Code:
~ # /etc
sh: /etc: Permission denied
~ #
~ # cd /etc
/etc # cd apt
/etc/apt # cd sources.list.d
/etc/apt/sources.list.d #
Hi minimos, I executed what u did and now I am in the sources.list.d directory. So what is my next step? Thank u for ur explanation, it makes a lot of sense...

kikujiro0208 2012-10-05 08:35
Re: China branded N9 (PR 1.3) app questions
 
Huray huray, I finally managed to install skype thanks to the deb-file that I got from thedead1440... (install through terminal... cd blabla... and dpkg -i blabla...):)

A new problem arises... cannot get skype to work... my skype contacts are not listed... not able to be online... etc...

Anyone that has the same issues?...

thedead1440 2012-10-05 08:41
Re: China branded N9 (PR 1.3) app questions
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by kikujiro0208 (Post 1276705)
Huray huray, I finally managed to install skype thanks to the deb-file that I got from thedead1440... (install through terminal... cd blabla... and dpkg -i blabla...):)

A new problem arises... cannot get skype to work... my skype contacts are not listed... not able to be online... etc...

Anyone that has the same issues?...
Try entering your full details on your desktop Skype...i.e Full name, date of birth...

Then delete the skype account from phone, reboot and add the account again...

kikujiro0208 2012-10-05 19:32
Re: China branded N9 (PR 1.3) app questions
 
hi thedead1440, thank u for ur advice. reinstalled skype into accounts. cannot change my status to online, it always says 'availablity offline'...

kikujiro0208 2012-10-11 01:00
Re: China branded N9 (PR 1.3) app questions
 
Still no success with skype on my N9...

Skype can be added to my 'accounts' (so it is listed)...
Bu when I open skype from my accounts, it says 'while you are offline some settings are not available'... (but I cannot put my status as online)...

On my desktop, I am using skype version 5.10.0.116.
Maybe I should upgrade or downgrade my PC version?

thedead1440 2012-10-11 05:56
Re: China branded N9 (PR 1.3) app questions
 
You are using an up-to-date Skype version so that should not be the cause...Maybe you need some one within China to help you with what they have done to work-around this?

kikujiro0208 2012-10-12 00:50
Re: China branded N9 (PR 1.3) app questions
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by thedead1440 (Post 1279119)
You are using an up-to-date Skype version so that should not be the cause...Maybe you need some one within China to help you with what they have done to work-around this?
Thank you thedead1440,
Maybe I should find a Nokia flagship store and see whether they are willing to help me... I have checked all other mobile phone shops but they refuse to accept my N9...

kikujiro0208 2012-10-15 10:09
Re: China branded N9 (PR 1.3) app questions
 
---> Final Post <--

Finally got skype working on my N9!!!

1) As suggested, I have filled in all my records in the PC profile...
2) I have re-installed the deb file(s) through the terminal...
3) rebooting over and over...

Thanks to all the terrific people over here in this great forum that made this happen!!!

- A proud N9 user...

regtheledge 2012-10-15 22:34
Re: China branded N9 (PR 1.3) app questions
 
I had the same problem with my old Singapore N9. (this was on pr 1.2). You first need to have nano installed. With that installed log in as root in terminal (devel-su pass:rootme) go to the sources.list.d directory and type
nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/aegis-ssu-keyring-009.list This will open up Nano and you can edit this first repository line to say .../harmattan/001. / Save this and then run apt-get update and you should be able to install apps. May not work on pr1.3 but this is the workaround I used. You can then change the file back to 009 after to ensure all updates are available

raulito 2015-01-06 06:41
Re: China branded N9 (PR 1.3) app questions
 
I know this thread is old but I have a Chinese N9 with no Skype. I am using root in devel mode. I have two deb files. One is named l10n-app-skype_0.0.131+0m8_all.deb and another called account-plugin-skype_0.104.1+0m8_armel.deb.

I have the files in my Download folder. When I type cd /home/user/MyDocs/Downloads, I have a '#' after it like this:
Quote:
/home/user/MyDocs/Downloads #
I type
Quote:
l10n-app-skype
I receive this:
Quote:
sh: l10n-app-skype: not found
/home/user/MyDocs/Downloads #
Are these the files I should install? Why can't it find the files?
Help anyone? I really need Skype on this phone. It's the only way to keep in contact with my parents and grandparents in the USA.

Thanks in advance

irulestar 2015-01-06 08:12
Try install skype_armel.deb it via filebox!!!
And then Type on terminal
~ # apt-get -f install

CMIIW

raulito 2015-01-06 15:28
Re: China branded N9 (PR 1.3) app questions
 
When I try to install the armel.deb in file box I receive this message:
Quote:
Can't Install Invalid installation package

raulito 2015-01-10 03:02
Re: China branded N9 (PR 1.3) app questions
 
Any more help would be greatly appreciated.

raulito 2015-01-10 04:42
Re: China branded N9 (PR 1.3) app questions
 
I found a working solution on this link Thanks guys! Since my first Nokia N800 in 2007, on with my N900, and now my N9,-- you guys have been an invaluable resource. Happy New Year!


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