If anyone tinkered with Debian roxterm / mrxvt and deb-forced them into the system like me during the last two days, they might run.

In fact, they ran very well. Despite having unresolved dependency to a newer libc6 when using an older version back from debian lenny.

Aaaand: i had to do another ugly hack: overwriting a libvte4 component because it was included in libvte9 too (which is needed by roxterm).

After not being able to upgrade the system neither by fapman nor shell because of the dependency issues that crept up every time i wanted to perform an upgrade, i decided to uninstall both terminal emulators. Result: uh-oh, big time.

The apt process deinstalled libvte9, and with it libvte4.so.9 something. No issue i thought, because i made a backup before overwriting it.

harhar. I was not able to use ANY shell afterwards, even with the .so in place again. Internal error and X-Term closed. No vim, no mc, no nothing. Ok, let's reinstall libvte4 and possibly osso-xterm from manually downloaded packages (Fremantle SDK armel versions).

Not possible. I got "Incompatible package" from Ham, because installing it from File Box through HAM was the only option (CmdShortcuts was the other, but... uh, no.).

The rescue after not being able to use sshd and usb0 networking from a linux box while booted into actual hildon instead of BackupMenu? installed mksh. that's it. i got a terminal again. And from here on i apt-get install --reinstall both osso-xterm and libvte4. It's working again....