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Rob1n	2010-12-07 , 13:47
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Originally Posted by manyoranges

Right, so the Ovi store provides a .install to application manager which goes off and downloads the application?

For free applications, yes. For any paid-for applications the Ovi store will provide the .deb file to application manager to install.

Originally Posted by manyoranges

I'm guessing each application also has some sort of flag set preventing it from being announced publicly in the repository?

Yes, all apps in the ovi store are flagged as hidden, so don't show up in app manager (and aren't installable by the provided apt-get release).

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