You can use mad-admin (located under Maemo/4.6.2/bin/) to install debian packages using dpkg: Code: /path/to/mad-admin dpkg -i package_0.0.1_armel.deb
/path/to/mad-admin dpkg -i package_0.0.1_armel.deb
dpkg-shlibdeps: failure: no dependency information found for /Users/john/QtSDK/Maemo/4.6.2/sysroots/fremantle-arm-sysroot-20.2010.36-2-slim/usr/lib/libqjson.so.0 (used by debian/linguine/opt/linguine/bin/linguine). dh_shlibdeps: command returned error code 512 make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1 Packaging Error: Command '/Users/john/QtSDK/Maemo/4.6.2/bin/mad dpkg-buildpackage -nc -uc -us' failed.Exit code: 2 Error while building project linguine (target: Maemo5) When executing build step 'Create Debian Package'