I've been trying to get these two installed on my n900 more or less ever since i got it early december only to be confronted with a reflash. My linux/xterminal knowledge is limited and was hoping that someone out there could make a simple package install for the above programs.

I much prefere to use newgroups over torrents, all of the pieces are on a server all of the time (for up to around 300 days afgter posting) and, not 100% sure but pretty confidant, most mobile operators dont block these where alot block torrent sites including legit ones such as the BBC and the Iplayer.

Anyways hipe someone out ther can help on this and hope it will be beneficial for many other to use

qucik bump, posted this late lastnight so i thought id give it some daylight coverage

is anyone even concidering this, cant believe noone here doesnt use newsgroups n doesnt want one for there n900

Does anybody reading this even know what you can do with nzb and newsgroups?

Yes, but I have no wish/need to do so on my N900

par2cmdline from debian sid builds on scratchbox (the SDK) as is, the other two complain about dependencies which are probably easy to solve if one has the time and inclination (I'm busy with this thing).

So grab the SDK and dive in: add sid repo as deb-src line to your sources.list and then "apt-get source packagename", it will extract the source for you, cd to the directory and run "dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b", first files to muck about when there is trouble are debian/control and debian/rules.

When they vuild cleanly you can copy the .debs to your device and (as root) use "dpkg -i package.deb" to install.

If you would like others to benefit from your hard work and score some karma make new source packages (with dpkg-buildpackage) and submit them to the maemo extras autobuilder (and then they can be installed via the application manager).

My n900 is coming soon and having hellanzb sounded like something fun to have on the device. I'd be interested to hear about any progress you have on getting this to run on it.

~Scott

Have a look here :

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...light=hellanzb

Hope you like ...

Installed all the stuff from your list:

apt-get install gnome-python hildon-desktop-python-loader python python-all python-cairo python-conic python-central python-dbus python-evolution python-gconf python-gobject python-gtk2 python-hildon python-hildondesktop python-imaging python-kiwi python-minimal python-notify python-numeric python-openssl python-osso python-pkg-resources python-pyopenssl python-support python-twisted-bin python-twisted-core python-twisted-web python-xml python-zope.interface python2.5 python2.5-minimal python2.5-qt4-common python2.5-qt4-core python2.5-qt4-dbus python2.5-qt4-gui python2.5-qt4-maemo5 python2.5-sip4

No idea which package(s) did the job.......but it works now

Many thanks for your help.