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	danramos	2010-05-13 , 19:28
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Originally Posted by lma

It was, both in the mailing list and MWKN.

Both of which, I've never heard of--nor any of the folks offline that I know own an N800 have ever mentioned to me. If it's not actually posted on maemo.org (which is SUPPOSEDLY a community site, right?) then how do you expect most device owners to be aware of this? I've seen the Community SSU only ever MENTIONED here and around, but never saw a way to get it or to be involved. Heck, I haunt this place more than the average person (maybe not as much as some of you, mind you).

Originally Posted by lma

No, this is non-official and Nokia is not responsible for anything we break.

I was referring to the non-Community OS. Does Nokia still support their N8x0 OS? We can actually DEMAND support? Really?

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	silvermountain	2010-05-13 , 19:33
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Originally Posted by gerbick

Oh yes... that would have killed that. If you don't want to use localepurge, then use docpurge and manually rm -f the language packages you'll not use.

Thanks much, will do.
I like listening to a lot of international music so I might be stuck with keeping most language files if I want titles and names presented accurately.

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gazza_d	2010-05-13 , 19:38
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Noticed this thread and decided to have a bit of a clean. I now have 126mb free. yippee!

I didn't know about localepurge though, so that was very useful.

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gerbick	2010-05-13 , 19:43
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Originally Posted by coosbaytv

will only be using the Diablo 5 theme now...

I suggest keeping one of the other themes at least. Just in case an update to the Diablo5 theme goes wrong. I had to "reset" once.

as for the rest of the instructions, it is pretty much over my head...

Oh. Oops. I assumed quite a bit there...

As I said before, x-term is not my thing and I have no knowledge of linux at all. I am however, a pretty knowledgable PC user but am afraid of accessing and messing with this linux stuff is where I am lost. I am willing to learn but this will obviously be somewhat slow.

Yeah, for a lot of it, you will have to be in the x-term, or what I tend to refer to as "terminal". In doing this kind of stuff, it's almost a necessity.

So, the first thing is to install the 4 apps you mention, correct? Doing this now...

Install via the terminal and not the Application Manager. Those aforesaid apps have to be installed via the terminal.

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	silvermountain	2010-05-13 , 19:44
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Originally Posted by danramos

Both of which, I've never heard of--nor any of the folks offline that I know own an N800 have ever mentioned to me. If it's not actually posted on maemo.org (which is SUPPOSEDLY a community site, right?) then how do you expect most device owners to be aware of this? I've seen the Community SSU only ever MENTIONED here and around, but never saw a way to get it or to be involved. Heck, I haunt this place more than the average person (maybe not as much as some of you, mind you).

I created a new thread for this: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...363#post657363

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gerbick	2010-05-13 , 19:45
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Originally Posted by gazza_d

Noticed this thread and decided to have a bit of a clean. I now have 126mb free. yippee!

I didn't know about localepurge though, so that was very useful.

gazza, I know you know more than I do about Linux; so I hope that you changed your localepurge to exclude en_GB and not en_US. As it stands, that's what the localepurge I posted will kill if run unchanged.

It shouldn't get rid of en_GB, but I thought I'd mention it just in case.

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gerbick	2010-05-13 , 19:49
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Originally Posted by coosbaytv

ERROR with installation of libpcre3 6.7-1osso1...

"Incompatible application package"

Then I use localepurge & docpurge to get rid of some locales on programs and files that I'd never use. Install in this order:

note: Mine were on my external memory card in a folder named Downloads

cd /media/mmc1/Downloads
dpkg -i libpcre3_6.7-1osso1_armel.deb
dpkg -i color_ls_1.0-1_armel.deb
dpkg -i pcregrep_6.7-1osso1_armel.deb
dpkg -i localepurge_0.5.8_all.modfied.modfied.deb

You will have to be in the terminal to install those. And by "login as root", I'm assuming that you also have rootsh or easyroot installed. They take up like 20k of space, allow you to enter the terminal and type "root" and then from there allow you to do the things that I've stated above.

Amazingly enough, as an ex-MCSE (I've yet to have a client need to update) almost all of my prior commands were done all in the terminal.

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gerbick	2010-05-13 , 20:00
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Originally Posted by coosbaytv

huh? sorry, is localpurge a command you type in x-term?

Yes.

also, what is "login as root"?

Install rootsh or easyroot and then pull up the terminal, type root. Now you're in as the root user.

I have zero experience with it, but you might want to use Emelfm2 since it'll allow you to do some of these removals in a visual method that you might like better. I just... can't say one way or the other for it. In fact, you're using leafpad... it might give you that ability somewhat.

I just don't have either installed.

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coosbaytv	2010-05-13 , 20:01
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if I type "root" in terminal and get "Nokia-N810-43-7:~#", does this mean I am at the root directory?

Also, what is "cd"?

will try to install the apps from root next...

making headway, one step at a time!

thx for your patience

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gerbick	2010-05-13 , 20:06
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cd = change directory
ls = list
root = command to enter as a root user/super user
ls -a = list all (including hidden)
cp = copy
rm = remove
mv = move

Where did you place the files from the earlier links? Like I said, I had mine on my external memory card. So to get to it... I would use:

cd /media/mm1 (hit enter)

Then I'd cd into my Downloads directory, then dpkg -i (dpkg install) the exact name of the deb (think exe) onto my machine.