maemo.org - Talk - View Single Post - my Nokia N900 cant install and uninstall application

RobbieThe1st	2010-08-09 , 02:13
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Originally Posted by Wikiwide

Maemo Flasher-3.5 tool does not support any 64-bit operating systems.

If Flasher-3.5 is not supported on your operating system you can try to install Maemo SDK Virtual Image from Maemo Development Environment Downloads page and flash Maemo device from Virtual Image (which includes Ubuntu). This may or may not work for you depending on how well virtualization technology you use supports USB on your HW.
http://tablets-dev.nokia.com/maemo-d...-downloads.php

And I'm going to say that this is part BS.
I run 64-bit Linux(Mint 8 KDE x86_64 on my laptop, Kubuntu 9.10 x86_64 on my desktop, and just moved to Mint 9 KDE x86_64.
uname -a on my laptop shows:

Code:

Linux rb-lt-new 2.6.31-21-generic #59-Ubuntu SMP Wed Mar 24 07:28:27 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I have flashed my N900 many times successfully from these.

What I did was:
1. Download the flasher3.5.tar.gz
2. Extract it to a temp directory
3. run "chmod +x flasher-3.5" from that directory, so it can be run.
4. Run it.

Now, I'm willing to bet that the reason it works, when it logically shouldn't, is that I have the ia32 libs installed on my machines. While some may consider this "cheating", as it allows you to run 32-bit excecutables by installing the 32-bit libraries the programs need to run, in this case its perfectly valid - It means you can use your 64-bit Linux OS to run this flasher.
Note though that I didn't manually install the ia32 libs on my new desktop, and I flashed successfully with it, so I dunno - They may have been included in the default packages though.

So, in conclusion, it -IS- possible to use your 64-bit Linux system to flash your N900, and easily too - you may have to install a few packages, though.

-Rob

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