Thread: How 2 Kagu (OS2008)
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jaywhy13 is offline jaywhy13
2007-12-28 , 00:32
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Originally Posted by berlin View Post
Hello,

While that works I still get that packages are missing - libsdl-ttf2.0-0 and libreadline4. What can be done about that? I am not finding any clear instructions here via the search on gaining root access to as to attempt to apt-get the libraries.

Thanks.
Whenever a library is missing what I did was to search
http://gronmayer.com/it choose the "Show Packages" option for each repository. When you click "Show Packages" it reloads the page with the list of packages for that repository shown. That's what I generally use to search for missing packages. And that worked for me.

As for gaining root from the device... not sure exactly how to do that. I'm familiar with debian but I've never used gainroot or any of those tools.... ususally "su root" or "sudo su" on some other distributions worked but that doesn't seem 2 work on my n800.

My alternative suggestion however was to use a ssh client like putty for example. http://the.e...
Put in the ip address for your n800. Click "Open" and it'll prompt for username and password. "root" for user ... if you haven't change the password I believe "rootme" should work.

From there you can use the root commands discussed in my earlier post.