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2009-02-28 , 18:07
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MAY 2009 UPDATE: Mer 0.13 Replacement desktop experiment underway! Please see this post for more details! This post has Mer 0.13 root filesystems to download:

Originally Posted by qole View Post
Here are the two big files for downloading. The .deb to actually switch desktops (and give you a maemo menu, battery status + wlan applet) is coming soon.

easy-mer-013-1-img.tar.bz2 (Easy Mer in an image file)
easy-mer-013-1.tar.bz2 (the raw file system for partition users)

Please be patient while I get the .deb made.
Both of those posts have more details, along with some warnings and "what doesn't work" info.

MARCH 2009 UPDATE: See this post for the newest image files, and use the instructions below with the new files instead.

Originally Posted by qole View Post
Ok folks, here's the new image file. It has OpenOffice3 with Hildon keyboard support, Gnumeric, and Epiphany with the latest OpenJDK6 Java. I think things are shaping up nicely...

Image File: ubuntu-mer-java-img-v2.tar.bz2
Partition tarball: ubumer-ooo-epi-gnum.tar.bz2


This leaves you with 326 MB of free space in the 1.1 GB image file.
ORIGINAL POST

Hey all,

I've tweaked the Mer 0.8 rootfs to run well in OS2008, and I posted my notes in my blog.

You need the new Easy Debian scripts to play with it.

It comes with Midori and I've configured Adobe Flashplayer, Prism, OpenJDK6, and Leafpad.

You can download the rootfs for a partition or the image file (see above for new files).

Once you've downloaded the image file to an SD card (in this example, /media/mmc2), you open a terminal, and enter:

Code:
cd /media/mmc2
gtar xjvf ubuntu-mer-java-img-v2.tar.bz2 .
You then have to edit your /home/user/.chroot file to have the following line:

Code:
IMGFILE=/media/mmc2/mer-jaunty-v2.img.ext2
You'll be able to run a root Ubuntu / Mer terminal by running
Code:
sudo debian
at a terminal (or put that in Personal Menu) and you run applications by typing
Code:
debbie <appname>
What I want to know is, what do people want from this project? Do you want a mostly-empty image file that you can fill up yourself (pretty much what we have here), or do you want some key applications?

I also would like to know what I should do about the fact that Midori (the fast, Webkit-based browser that comes with Mer 0.8) doesn't do Java (nor does Fennec, it seems). Firefox is really heavy for the tablets, and Prism is really bare bones, so does anyone have a really lightweight browser that will do Java? Maybe Epiphany? Kazehakase? Something else?

Here's the screenshot from a few posts below:

Screenshot of Mer Midori using Mer Liberty theme in OS2008:
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Last edited by qole; 2009-05-28 at 23:57. Reason: Updated with new files
 

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