App Manager Broken
 

Hey guys,

Ive been having a problem with the app manager on my N900 for the last few weeks and I would really appreciate some help.

The app manager has stopped showing available apps with the message (no applications available) and if I try to uninstall any app I get the message Unable to uninstall 'app'.

In the app log it says e:lists directory/var/libapt/lists/partial is missing, if that is any help.

Has anyone else had this problem and knows how to fix it?

Many thanks

Re: App Manager Broken
 

Have you been trying to free up some root space by any chance?

It happened to me after I tried to enter some script on a webpage I stumbled across.
Finally sorted it by reading the wiki page on freeing up root space,sorry I cant remember the exact page.

Here's a link to my post http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=46124

I folowed the link from andre klapper (it wasn't a lot of help) but I got there in the end.think it was more luck than anything.

Re: App Manager Broken
 

Nope, I haven’t tried to do that. I never downloaded the command line program as I was worried I would break my phone somehow.

As far as I can tell, the app manager thing happened randomly

Re: App Manager Broken
 

You can recreate the directory and see whether that helps:

Re: App Manager Broken
 

Could be worth a try.

What do I need to enter that line in to?

Re: App Manager Broken
 

You will need to install rootsh then enter the commands in x terminal.

Re: App Manager Broken
 

Ok. Is there any way to install rootsh without the app manager?

Re: App Manager Broken
 

erm, yeah - you can goto the downloads section of this site on your n900 and click the install button (But... i think it loads up the app manager... worth a try)

Re: App Manager Broken
 

Good point
Navigate to http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/rootsh/ on your n900
click the install button (top right of page)

Re: App Manager Broken
 

Yeah, noobmonkey was right, it loads up in app manager and says that the application package was not found. Irritating.

Is there any other way to install it?