Thread: n900 file manager root access
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Rob1n is offline Rob1n
2010-03-17 , 12:37
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#23
Originally Posted by 7thd View Post
PROBLEM:
non-installable applications, a.o. Midnight Commander
(mc 4.6.2-pre1-1maemo5)

-I add Maemo-Extras-Devel repo (temporarily...) - OK
-I find mc in the Application Manager list - OK
-I try to install that - FAIL. AppMan sees it as not-installable. Message (translated "Missing application packages: file".
Do you have extras-testing set up as well? It may be that the required dependencies are in there. According to http://maemo.org/packages/view/file/ file is in Nokia Applications though, so make sure that's still configured and enabled.
 

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