Thread: Missing packages on my N900
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justmemory is offline justmemory
2015-12-01 , 11:53
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Originally Posted by beckerbalazs View Post
Dear friends,

As I am back to the N900, I have a working unit now, but when I try to install apps (for example Bible reader Katana), I always encounter a message which says that some packages are missing:

libqt
libhildon

And some others.....

Where and how can I install these packages?

Sorry, I am quite new to linux...... So please explain it in a "dummy" way. Thanks!

Another question: My newly acquired N900 is a used one of course, and I do not have the root password (for terminal....) to install things through apt-get, or so. How can I find out the root password or is there a go-around?

Or should I flash the whole thing new?

Also, youtube is not working on the Web browser..... I don't know why.

I installed the new repos from the new repos homepage by the way.

Sorry for the dumb questions! Thanks for your replies: Balazs

Hi, Balazs!

First things first: is it a freshly reflashed device or you bought it with this state? Which image is it running on (stock, CSSU...)?
Btw. you can install packages through the application manager (and you SHOULD install packages that way...).

For root priviliges you do not have to guess any password just install the package named rootsh. But as long as you are not familiar what you are doing I recommend not to use that... Also: try to install packages through application manager as maemo is not designed to install anything with apt-get (you can of course but you must know what you are doing...).

If it is not a freshly reflashed device and you do not have essential datas on it (you can save them/backup them of course) then I suggest you to reflash it and use CSSU.

Youtube is not working because of libflashplayer... I recommend you to install cutetube2. This is a native application and for this reason far better than trying to view anything on the web browser.

Btw. I'm hungarian too so if you would like maybe I can help with some things if you p.m. me...

Cheers,

jm
 

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