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Originally Posted by lostinmirkwood View Post
Another newbie question:

With Scratchbox and Xephyr running I can see the basic desktop (with the green PS3 looking background). If I click on Application Manager and and then select catalogues there is a "NEW" button that launches the Add-a-catalogue form.

I've tried adding a repository but it doesn't seem to save it; so now I have a few questions.

1. Should I be able to load a catalogue in the SDK? If so How?

2. Can I hand edit it? I expected that the contents of the /etc/apt/sources.list would be loaded here. (I've even used the red pill)

3. Is it wrong for me to expect other applications to be loaded (contacts, calendar, etc) I realize this is a Development environment for our code, but I would assume you could still connect to other repositories just for testing learning purposes.

4. Do I not have the Fremantle Extras loaded correctly? If I go to
http://repository.maemo.org/extras-d...remantle/free/ with my browser I see a pile of apps and libraries. Do I have to explicitly Make and Install these?

Thanks again, I'm feeling a little less lost these days. I'm also quite impressed with the Maemo community, it seems that although it's a lot smaller than Symbian, developers are quite welcoming to new comers and our confused questions.
v.02 has the Fremantles extra and extra-testing. Now the problem is that Scratchbox testing is primariy done in x86 code. The repository is primarily ARM compiled. I believe (I haven't tested -- I've been busy trying to make these images work <G>) that you can pull the source for several of the apps; and compile it. Also https://garage.maemo.org/projects/maemoexamples/ has a ton of fremantle samples that you can compile and run in the scratchbox. I've compiled a bunch of them for testing.

Actually I just figured out that you can use Apt-get from inside the scratchbox to pull any applications that have i386 in them. (See the below post of mine)


As for adding sources; you need to dig deep into the scratchbox /scratchbox/home/maemo/users/maemo/target/<target>/etc/apt/sources.list (While inside the scratchbox, you can use /etc/apt/ for the current target's sources.list file)



Nathan

Last edited by Nathan; 2009-09-17 at 00:26. Reason: Adding apt-get info
 

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