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mikhmv is offline mikhmv
2009-12-17 , 18:49
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#11
Originally Posted by DannStarr View Post
I was under the impression that i had the correct "application catalogs" as that particular application shows up when i go to app manager. The spelling, including upper and lower case is correct too.

Im not particularly bothered about specifically downloading "Attitude" i just picked a nice small one from the list in extras.

If merely having the required repo active on my device is not enough, whats the next step?
name in App. manager and apt is different for example:
Password Safe (in App Manager) - pwsafe (in apt)
 
DannStarr is offline DannStarr
2009-12-17 , 18:52
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#12
Originally Posted by mikhmv View Post
1. use command root or sudo gainroot (you will need rootsh package)
2. Check correct name of application by command:
apt-cache search attitude (or any keywords)
If program wasn't found than check repositories which you use
3. install by command
apt-get install attitude

P.S in linux capital and not capital is different. "attitude" not equal to "Attitude"
I think thats what im missing, your point number 2.

I gotta go to work right now, but i shall try this later and post back, thanks
 
codeMonkey is offline codeMonkey
2009-12-17 , 22:45
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#13
If you just want to run one command as root without doing "sudo gainroot" you can type "rootsh" before it.
For example:
rootsh apt-get install attitude
 

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Scooty is offline Scooty
2009-12-20 , 17:15
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hi guys,just one question.Is there any way you just click a .deb file for n900 and simply installing il,just like **nux (***untu) ?? cause i do not understand english so well and i have my n900 for about one week and i'm still reading and trying to install a .deb file (from maemo.org repositoryes) in terminal (i have root acces).I have downloaded,via pc,to my 27 gb memory of n900 attitude_0.0.8_armel.deb and could this help me to stop install apps via terminal?And second i can not install it "apt-get install attitude_0.0.8_armel.deb" (with\without .deb in name,even try to install attitude_0.0.8_i386.deb) says "Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package attitude_0.0.8_armel.deb "
Any one can help? Thankyou all a lot ! (sorry for my bad english)
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2009-12-20 , 18:05
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#15
Be careful installing packages from the terminal as the installation files are cached on the 256MB root partition (the Application Manager caches to the eMMC) and you can quickly fill up your available space.
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fatalsaint is offline fatalsaint
2009-12-20 , 18:40
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Originally Posted by Scooty View Post
hi guys,just one question.Is there any way you just click a .deb file for n900 and simply installing il,just like **nux (***untu) ?? cause i do not understand english so well and i have my n900 for about one week and i'm still reading and trying to install a .deb file (from maemo.org repositoryes) in terminal (i have root acces).I have downloaded,via pc,to my 27 gb memory of n900 attitude_0.0.8_armel.deb and could this help me to stop install apps via terminal?And second i can not install it "apt-get install attitude_0.0.8_armel.deb" (with\without .deb in name,even try to install attitude_0.0.8_i386.deb) says "Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package attitude_0.0.8_armel.deb "
Any one can help? Thankyou all a lot ! (sorry for my bad english)
To accompany General Antilles warning... the answer to the question is:

You don't use apt to install a deb file that you have downloaded from the terminal. You need to know where the file is (say /home/user/MyDocs) and then run:

rootsh dpkg -i attitude_0.0.8_i386.deb

And this will not cache on your 256MB root partition, as your deb file is already in the MyDocs.. it doesn't copy it over. However, there is no dependency downloading this way - so if attitude depends on something you don't have it will error out and you'll have to track those down as well.

If you use apt-get to install packages from the terminal, then it will cache to an apt cache that exists on your 256MB root partition which will cause unwanted space usage. But, you do not use version numbers like what you did with apt - you would simply use:

apt-get install attitude

as root. But this will not install from the .deb on your N900... it will download the deb *again*, and any dependencies, and install them all. The very next thing you'll likely want to run is:
apt-get clean

To erase the downloaded files and recover your root space.
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Scooty is offline Scooty
2009-12-20 , 20:29
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fatalsaint thank u verry much,your answer was verry good for me,now,thanks to you,i figured out how to do it even if it was a simple thing i realy needed this answer.
Last edited by Scooty; 2009-12-20 at 21:01.
 
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