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the simplest reminder

Hi guys,
it's a long time, since I thougth buy an N900, i'm triing to use a simple txt file in which I write birthday and annual notes to remind.

In Linux I use a command line called "caledar" that I find very useful for my needings.

Unfortunately that command and other like "cal" aren't in maemo.

I tried to install some pakage like bsdmainutils that contain that commands but I'm not sure doing the right thing. In fact does't work!
I downloaded this file and then typed:

Code:

apt-get install bsdutils_2.13-8_armel.deb

Any suggestions please?

PS
after googling several month I found this interesting command :

Code:

grep "$(date '+%b %d')" dates.txt

Apr 10: Go climbing.

But it could be less powerful.

Re: the simplest reminder

also:

Code:

clear && cal && printf "%s\n\n" "$(grep -F "$(date '+%b %d')" dates.txt)"

but I guess "cal" missing again....

Re: the simplest reminder

have you tried:

Code:

dpkg -i bsdutils_2.13-8_armel.deb

apt-get is used for "getting packages from the repositories then installing using dpkg"

Code:

dpkg -i <filename>

installs packages from files..

Re: the simplest reminder

it seems to work but noticed a lot of dependencies error (whatever it means)...
It's hard to understand every needing step of a new system... I Worked on Windows system since 20years ago!!!
thanks

Re: the simplest reminder

I noticeved some dependencies problems, as I saw...anyway comman cal is now working but calendar show this message:

Code:

calendar:/usr/bin/cpp: no such file od directory

It seem missing a program wich executing calendar...
I'm afraid to have a problem bigger than I can resolve.....