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Originally Posted by iontruo2 View Post
This guys comment here sure describes well what the story can be like.

Unread Today, 10:36 PM
sungrove ......

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I will follow up this post with a search on Erminig. But I thought I'd mention that I tried installing Erminig this afternoon. After finding and installing GPE calender and then downloading Erminig I tried using the ap manager to install it. Ap manager then said I needed gdataclient and pysqlite to install Eminig. So I found and successfully installed gdataclient and then downloaded pysqlite. When I tried to install pysqlite, ap. manager needed Python 2.5 to install it successfully. Well, then I found Python on Maemo.org and found that it wouldn't install because of corrupt files and a server problem. So, Am I doing this right? And is there another way to download the Python 2.5 application I need?

Thanks,
Neil



And now he is stuck at then end of the run around....

This is what rubs many users the wrong way.
Hi there,

I'm ammused that you used my post above to illustrate the problem being talked about in this thread. Fortunately, today I had the time to try to accomplish the erminig installation. But I did spend all afternoon trying to do it. I too find myself very thankfull to the fine folks who provide this software for free. I'm not sure why they do it but I'm glad they do. That being said, I don't really see the wider more profitable market being available to Nokia with this sort of installation effort being required. I would think it would be very profitable to Nokia in the long run if they would invest more money into supporting the developers. Sorry to talk about profit but obviously that is what Nokia is after in this.

I did end up being able to install ERMINIG by simply downloading and installing the Python 2.5 labeled 'runtime' in my Application manager. That allowed the sequence of applications needed to be installed. Then after opening and trying to use it for a while, it subsequently would not open. So, now I'm sort of back at square one wondering what I did wrong. It seems that one thing that developers need to do is to list exactly what will need to be installed to get their program to work if it is not a one click installation. ( and where to get those things)

Neil
 

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