Hello Everyone,

I recently purchased a N810 and it's great so far. However, I don't fully understand some things.

N810 runs ITOS1008 which is a modified (crippled!) debian system. Correct?

Hildon is the default window manager on N810
Correct?

Other WMs can be installed (KDE, matchbox, IceWM, XFCE from what I saw reading around the forum). Correct?

Then, I've been told I can replace ash shell with proper Bash shell, but I can not find out where I can download and install bash for ITOS2008. Any ideas?

Also, many places mention installing becomeroot to get root access on the device, but I can not find repositories that provide becomeroot for ITOS2008. Where can I get this or how else can I root the N810?

Canola2 fails to start giving a: "Can't find libeet error". I found a deb for libeet on one of the canola2 repos, but app manager refuses to install it saying something about version mismatch/incompatible file. Any ideas where I can get this elusive libeet to get canola2 up and running?

Thanks for reading!
-Igs

The community and Nokia generally abbreviates it as "OS2008". Yes, it is a Debian-based system (probably the most important change is swapping GNUtils for BusyBox).

s/crippled/designed to run on a mobile device/

No, Hildon is the UI—an extension of GTK—and the API. Matchbox is the window manager.


Yes.

Add the repository from http://www.nitapps.com/

Grab easyroot from the repository mentioned above.

Thanks a lot for that bit of info! There are some really useful apps in that repo. Are there any other such 3rd party repos i should know about?

Also, is it possible to get gcc, and make on the tablet so that i can compile basic C programs? How about a Ruby interpreter? Sorry for all these questions, i'm still trying to understand how OS2008 works and set it up to my preferences.

Cheers,
Igs

About the canola question. There's a broken library dependency. libeet is upgraded but canola obviously has no way of knowing about this.

there's a fix detailed here: http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...7&postcount=19

Thanks for pointing me to that post, now I fixed Canola and its really great! I also figured out how to install the compiler snd related tools. Its a simple matter of apt-get install gcc as root.

The tablet is getting closer to giving me the same functionalitty as my laptop,, its amazing!

Thanks for all the help guys,
Cheers,
Igs

I have a (somehow off topic) question on this "becomeroot" or "easyroot" utility.
As a regular Linux (ubuntu) user on the Desktop, I am very used to the "sudo" command.
I also use it very often on my n810 and I have the impression that I am able to do anything using "sudo"
Is there any real difference between "sudo" and "becomeroot" ?
If sow, what is it ?

Finally, I would also like to replace ash by bash, but I red that it is a risky business. Is it ?

Thanks
xavi

Hi xvila,

I replaced ash by bash for user root and user "user" without any problems. However, i would not recommend linking /bin/sh to /bin/bash since this might (and probably will) cause problems and I really do not see any need for this anyway.

HTH
-Igs

Thanks lgs

I am not sure, but I think that I needed bash when I tried to install tetex. Aparently, the tetex post-install script was looking for some bash command that was not available in ash.

Other than that, it is true that ash is enough