Basic Linux Apps Missing?
 

I have an N800 with OS2008 5.2008.43-7 installed.

When I run xterm there seems to be several common tools that are missing. For examples:

wget
apt-get
less

and many others that I thought were standard and I see other Maemo users using these in their posts. Where do I get these tools? Is there an extra package to download?

Thanks!
Eric

Re: Basic Linux Apps Missing?
 

apt-get should be there, although you need to be root to use it successfully.

There's no less by default, but there is more. I would quite like less myself, actually.

Re: Basic Linux Apps Missing?
 

If you have 43-7 and are missing apt-get, you need to reflash because something's horribly wrong. Once that's corrected, go into the application manager (menu --> tools --> application catalog) and enable Maemo extras. Then it's a simple matter of apt-cache search <term>.

http://gronmayer.com/it is a good source for repos.

Re: Basic Linux Apps Missing?
 

thanks for the help. I was a bit confused. I do have apt-get, but I'm missing some of the others that I'm used to like wget, whereis and less. Which repositories have some of the standard unix/linux tools? There are a lot of them in there.

Re: Basic Linux Apps Missing?
 

You have apt-get, everything else is one command away.

Re: Basic Linux Apps Missing?
 

are you root? a lot the commands require that you are root to run them on maemo.

Re: Basic Linux Apps Missing?
 

wget is there for most of us. I'm not sure where it comes from (looks up at the sky)

Re: Basic Linux Apps Missing?
 

Yeah I'm root. There's definately no wget or whereis. On a whim I just did apt-get install wget and that almost worked. It got a timeout waiting for headers from repository.maemo.org diablo/free wget after I said to install the unverified packages.

so I tried an apt-get update and it takes a long time saying waiting for headers again.

Remember I'm pretty new at this stuff and I could be making a very stupid mistake...

Re: Basic Linux Apps Missing?
 

busybox, a single binary that emulates lots of common commands, is used to save space so there is the "more" command but not the "less" comman, i.e. to save space.

apt-cache search wget should find the package
apt-cache show package_name will tell you about it

Timeouts on headers sound the a problem with the web/repository web server.

Re: Basic Linux Apps Missing?
 

Well, you know what they say, less is more. :D

sorry, couldn't resist.