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Sorry to say this, but it is a mess to setup maemo development SDK. It seams no one at Maemo or Nokia is interesting to support development for maemo 4. But setup the SDK for maemo 5 isn't really better.

Half the time it seems the server don't work. (maemo 4) A while ago setting up scratchbox for maemo 5 the installer script don't work over a longer time, because it can't verify a downloaded file of the scratchbox installation. Than the arm target of the maemo 4 SDK have some problems on newer Linux kernels and installation on 64Bit system makes trouble anyway.

Then the maemo VM SDK. The pre final version don't really work for me. Then on the homepage of the VM SDK, the final SDK was announced. But on the download site only the pre final SDK was found for a long time. OK, now the final SDK is available and it seems that it is also working, so far I can test it. But to install some packages it also needs access to the maemo repositories, which are more down than up.

A small comparison. Setting up Android development system for an android beginner: 15 minutes. Setting up a really working maemo development environment for maemo 4 and if possible maemo 5 with Qt development possible: Weeks, month, years, ....? Even setting up Symbian development system is easier.