I've read the tutorials in the development area on maemo, but am still unsure... I want to put slrn onto the tablet.

I've got the development environment ready to go. I can get slrn in a debian package. slang is already on the device.

Is the tutorial the only info about porting things? (the porting howto is about prting from an earlier version) If there's already a package what's the best way to go about porting it to the n800?

I presume the idea is recompile the source code in the scratchbox? How do I get it in there? And why are there two targets, shouldn't I only need the ARM one?

The tutorials seem to be aimed at people who already know these things...

Zebee

What I've been doing is just grabbing the three files that make up the debian source package from packages.debian.org. So I search for package 'foo', go to its page and grab foo.tar.gz, foo.diff.gz and foo.dsc. unpack the tarfile, applly the patch, cd into the package directory and run dpkg-buildpackage. at least i think that's right. anyways, it should give you someplace to start.

-john

You might be interested in mud-builder (MUD == Maemo Unofficial Debs): http://mud-builder.garage.maemo.org/

Any questions, please don't hesitate to ask on the mailing list - we've got a good number of people working on MUD on a regular basis.

Or use: dpkg-source -x *.dsc

then cd into the package directory and run

dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot

Ah, MUD looks perfect.

Mind you... Long time RH user here, so I now have a debian learning curve!

Thanks!

Zebee