Thread: [Canola] Canola & N810
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2008-02-24 , 13:20
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Originally Posted by handful View Post
Thanks for any minute you're able to put on this we really appreciate. As most of the users facing problems are not that linux-savvy it's even harder to get debug info from them.
Miraculously, I managed to install it. From the app manager. Here is what I have done differently:

1. Canola instructions tell you to click on the repository installation button. The repository is quite a common one so most people already have it added. Adding it for the second time will screw up app manager in a non-obvious way.

2. When instructions say "reboot after running Canola cleanup", it is not an option. You should absolutely, definitely reboot, or all kinds of strange things start happening when you try installing Canola again.

for me it would be just a big tar.gz file and unpacking it would install it with a wizard (to already configure media folders, safe modes, where to store things etc)
Well, I guess that would be a bit too radical. The app manager is fine. It is the complicated framework of dependencies that is causing problems. These depndencies will cause problems with or without the app manager, I am afraid.

Canola is a hobby project here, so while working on it we do need to do "commercial" work to pay the bills , so you get the dimension of the problem : /
I strongly hope Canola does become a commercial project for Nokia at some point. It is certainly in line with Nokia's efforts to make a name in multimedia devices business and it is also a huge argument against choosing an iPhone.