I originally posted about this in the Newbie forum, but haven't gotten any replies. I thought that this forum might be a better place for my question. Apologies for the duplicate.

My goal is to use remind on my new N810. I'm wondering if I need to compile the program myself, or if someone has already done the work to make a .deb or .install for this program.

A search for remind and maemo turned up these 2 pages, which I don't understand: does the inclusion of remind in mud-builder make life easier for me? If so, where can I learn more about what to do next? (I looked at the mud-builder home page, but couldn't understand much.)

I attempted to compile the program myself. With some advice from the remind-fans email list, I used apt-get -install build-essential to put the development tools on my 810. However, when I run ./configure I run into a problem with grep: the error returned is

checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... configure: error: no accpetable grep could be found in /bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/user/xpg4/bin

Apparently the basic version of grep can't do everything it needs to do. I tried running apt-get install grep, but this returned a long list of packages that would be uninstalled, many warnings, etc, so I didn't go through with it.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.