Thread: Cloning OS to SD Card: Simplified instructions
View Single Post
Milhouse is offline Milhouse
2008-01-13 , 04:17
Posts: 3,401 | Thanked: 1,255 times | Joined on Nov 2005 @ London, UK
#163
Originally Posted by dan View Post
Where do I download to?
Once I place the file in the right directory.
Anywhere you like - not sure where the default download location is, but I tend to favour /tmp as temporary location which is easy to find.

Originally Posted by dan View Post
The "dpkg -i <filename>" is that after the "#" once I'm in sudo gainroot?
Yes.

Originally Posted by dan View Post
Idea when I tried "-f install" it asked if I had solution to missing files. Can I put the "dpkg -i <filename>" in there and what filename should I give it?
I don't think so.

Originally Posted by dan View Post
I'm trying to understand how I can be missing so many files and my n800 works flawlessly so far.
While attempting to install an application in the past something (I have no idea what) has become corrupted within the database that is maintained by apt - the device itself is fine, it's just the application installer (apt) that is a bit screwed up and is now preventing you from installing any further applications until whatever corruption has occurred is corrected. Unfortunately I don't know an easy way to achieve that in your situation.