Thank you mrcock for re-enabling APRS in Mappero!

I have made more detailed instructions on how to install the software on N900. For example, N900 does not have repository extras-testing nor unzip installed by default, so I wrote down here how to do it.

--- begin of N900-APRS-HOWTO.txt --
HOW TO GET MAPPERO WITH APRS SUPPORT

Document version 1.5 2011-12-06 by Juhani Jaakola OH1FSS

BACKGROUND

Old versions of Mappero had APRS support. To get APRS support into latest Mappero (version 3.2), the following is needed.

INSTALLATION

- install Mappero 3.2 (in Application manager)
- install rootsh (in Application manager)
- enable application repository extras-testing

See wiki.maemo.org/Extras-testing#How_to_activate_Extras-testing

Application manager, menu, Application catalogs, New
Catalog name: maemo.org extras-testing
Web address: http://repository.maemo.org/extras-testing/
Distribution: fremantle
Components: free non-free

- Download the following three attached files from the earlier post of mrcock

N900_APRS.zip
maemo-mapper_3.2-golf_en01.zip (rename this to maemo-mapper_3.2-golf_en.z01)
maemo-mapper_3.2-golf_en.zip

- Combine .z01 and .zip and extract maemo-mapper_3.2-golf_en.deb from them

$ cat maemo-mapper_3.2-golf_en.z01 maemo-mapper_3.2-golf_en.zip > m.zip
$ unzip m.zip

- Transfer N900_APRS.zip and maemo-mapper_3.2-golf_en.deb to N900, for example to directory /home/user/MyDocs/.documents/

- execute in X terminal:

$ sudo gainroot
# apt-get install unzip
# <Ctrl-D>
$ cd /home/user/MyDocs/.Maps
$ unzip ../.documents/N900_APRS.zip
$ mv N900_APRS/aprs/ .
$ mv N900_APRS/maemo-mapper-aprs.png .
$ mv N900_APRS/poi.db .
$ sudo gainroot
# dpkg --install ../.documents/maemo-mapper_3.2-golf_en.deb
(lots of errors: Unknown freedesktop.org field 'generic-icon'.)
# cp -p /home/user/MyDocs/.Maps/maemo-mapper-aprs.png /opt/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/hildon/
# <Ctrl-D>

- Now set up Mappero according to instructions by mrcock earlier in this thread

- Do NOT enable map correction (should be used only in China)!

OPTIONAL (I didn't execute these)

- Enable suid bit for TNC use (serial connection via Bluetooth to TNC)

# chmod +s /usr/bin/hcitool
# chmod +s /usr/bin/rfcomm
--- end of N900-APRS-HOWTO.txt ---

After these steps you may want to disable repository extras-testing in Application Manager.