What will be the reason/advantage in installing easy debain on n900?
 

What will be the reason/advantage in installing easy debain on the n900?

Re: What will be the reason/advantage in installing easy debain on n900?
 

having a chrooted debian install that has extended functionality, like a full lxde desktop environment, or applications not normally available in the maemo repos, but very matured on debian itself. things like openoffice, GIMP, you name it.

Re: What will be the reason/advantage in installing easy debain on n900?
 

Access to more apps. There is a large repository of Debian ARM apps. While these are not written for the N900's hardware specifically, many of them will work OK. Some standouts (if I understand correctly -- my experience is with Easy Debian for the N810):
* OpenOffice.org, which has similar functionality to MS Office
* The GIMP, a sophisticated image manipulation tool
* Ability to run Java apps via Iced Tea

However, you need to do your homework as it is a hack. There are lots of long forum threads that will be your friend.

Re: What will be the reason/advantage in installing easy debain on n900?
 

Being able to run programs that are not available on maemo.

Being able to run full versions of programs instead of the crippled maemo versions (eg firefox/fennec)

Re: What will be the reason/advantage in installing easy debain on n900?
 

Ok so I did install easy debain on my n900 couple days ago thinking openoffice suported microsoft office publisher files but found out it doesnt.

Now I do see some icons show up in the menu area of the n900 liek one of them is the Iceweasel web b which I assume thats the firefox browser right? Anyways what is debain chroot icon for and do?

Also by having easy debain installed is it running in the baclground using up battery usage and how do I know its fully close? Thanks

Re: What will be the reason/advantage in installing easy debain on n900?
 

openoffice supports a myriad of things, might want to google around a bit.

Iceweasel = debranded firefox (mozilla foundation got butthurt about debian including it)

it isn't running like your standard 'application', it is an extension and a collection of scripts usable to launch prebuilt debian environments/applications. When you close it, it is no longer running.

Re: What will be the reason/advantage in installing easy debain on n900?
 

When I went to youtube to watch a don rickles video from within the browser of easy debain it crashes to the desktop on easy debain befor ethe video starts to paly anyoen know why?

Also when I go to logout do I choose shutdown or logout to fully close the easy debain app?

Re: What will be the reason/advantage in installing easy debain on n900?
 

choose 'shutdown' to fully close the debian desktop. I'm not 100% familiar using iceweasel, but my first bet would be doing the following in a terminal inside your debian instance:

apt-get install flashplayer-mozilla --reinstall

Re: What will be the reason/advantage in installing easy debain on n900?
 

Ok so I loaded up debain and on the left i click on the icon of terminal emulator right? So then I typed in the command you gave me and it says E: Unable to lock the adminstration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?

What do I do?

Re: What will be the reason/advantage in installing easy debain on n900?
 

in short: gain root access... try it simply with 'sudo apt-get install flashplayer-mozilla --reinstall'

I have no idea why you'd have interest in playing flash videos in iceweasel in a chrooted debian environment. From my observations it is much slower than playing flash through the stock browser or fennec 1.1