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neatojones	2009-02-26 , 06:28
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You can also uncomment the line that set the power use of the wifi to conserve power:
# up iwconfig wlan0 power 200u multicast

Also...good thinking with the wifi-radar. It's a nice solution to not using nm-applet.

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ShadE_LuRkeR	2009-02-28 , 11:56
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I have problem with editing /etc/apt/sorces.lst The problem is that I don't know how to edit it in X-Terminal. I've tried with gedit but it says command not found. So could you tell me what is the command for editing files in N800's console ?? Thanks in advance

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	qole	2009-02-28 , 22:38
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I suggest installing Leafpad. It is available in both Maemo and Ubuntu, and it is a nice gui text editor. If you want to stick with the terminal, learn the vi commands...

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	b-man	2009-02-28 , 22:49
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To edit your /etc/apt/sources.list file in the terminal you can install nano and run the following; (assuming your allrety in ubuntu va chroot)

Code:

nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Then press ctrl+x to save and quit.

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	b-man	2009-02-28 , 22:51
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ahh, qole beet me to it!

Btw, i'll be uploading sys-env-base (metapackage for the basic bootable system) and sys-env-x (metapackage for a bootable system with x11) to the ubuntu-n8x0 repo witch will hopefully make installing ubuntu a bit faster/easier

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neatojones	2009-03-02 , 05:12
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Updated E17 directions:
***This method isn't perfected yet, but it does have some advantages and disadvantages over the previous method:

Advantages:
Quicker, simpler install with less dependencies

Disadvantages:
-onscreen keyboard default profile isn't installed yet. (I'm working on fixing this.)
-Images look funny: The wallpaper seems to have lines going across it for some reason. (this isn't the case with the other version).
-I wasn't able to package up all the available modules/gadgets.
-It takes forever to build all of these packages, so I won't be making many (if any updates) to them.
__________________________________________________ ______________________
E17 install directions:

Install base system...

Update you package list and upgrade to latest packages:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade

You'll need to make sure that Ubuntu packages are preferred over Mer ones.
To do this edit /etc/apt/preferences making sure that the number for the ubuntu release is higher than the number for Mer.

Then, add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://qole.maemobox.org/repository mer e17

Then

$sudo apt-get update
$sudo apt-get install e17 libedje0=0.9.9.050-1 libecore0=0.9.9.050-1 libedbus0=0.5.0.050-1

Also, you don't really need any of the packages that have a -dbg in them (I don't think you need any of the ones that have a -dev in them either), so you can remove them and then run the command above.

Next you need to have a locale that e17 recognizes for keyboard purposes:
$sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8 (or whatever works for your locale)

Next you will need a dictionairy for the keyboard to use for autocorrect/word guess:

apt-get install wamerican

You'll want to set up gtk so your programs that use gtk will look good. Download gtk and icon themes and extract them to the .themes and .icons folders in your home directory.
create a file called .gtkrc in your home directory and put this in it:

gtk-theme-name = "B_and_W"
gtk-icon-theme-name = "OxygenRefit2-black"
gtk-font-name = "Sans 14"

Note:This theme requires the pixbuff gtk2 engine, which you have to install if you haven't already. Also, using larger font sizes will make the menu bar easier to use, but use more screen space.

$sudo apt-get install gtk2-engines-pixbuf

If you have a N810:
Then, in the terminal type:

mkdir ~/.e/e/keyboards

Then type:

$ nano ~/.e/e/keyboards/ignore_built_in_keyboards

in side this file type

/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/*

Then hit "Ctrl & x" at the same time.
Then hit "y"
Then "enter"

Everyone:
If you are using auto-startx (no login manager)
.xinitrc

exec enlightenment_start

If you want to use gdm

$ cd/usr/share/xsessions

make a file called enlightenment.desktop

Put this information in that file:
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Enlightenment 0.17
Comment=
Exec= /usr/bin/enlightenment_start
Icon=
Type=XSession

You will probably also want to install a program that will improve the applications list (menu).

$sudo apt-get install gnome-menus

Note: you can make things larger (and therefore, easier to press) by playing with the scaling in the settings.

Also, I recommend installation of the xserver-xomap package (this makes the graphics smoother/faster and makes the mouse invisible):

$sudo apt-get install xserver-xomap

__________________________________________________ _____________

If you prefer to install and build your own e17, you can still download and install this file:
Orignal e17 deb
WARNING: This method WILL take a SIGNIFICANTLY longer time to setup and requires quite a few libraries to be installed. But, it doesn't have any of the disadvantages listed above. So, I still recommend the original method, if you don't mind taking the time to use it.

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Last edited by neatojones; 2009-03-04 at 19:56.

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	b-man	2009-03-02 , 12:14
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I'll update the link for the instructions

awsome job!

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	qole	2009-03-03 , 17:52
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Originally Posted by neatojones

(We're going to get these all into a repo, but this is the best I could do for now)

I've dumped all of the packages into my repository for now... I haven't tried installing yet, however...

My repository:
Catalogue Name: Qole Mer E17
Web address: http://qole.maemobox.org/repository
Distribution: mer
Components: e17

Or, in your /etc/apt/sources.list

Code:

deb http://qole.maemobox.org/repository mer e17

It looks like it should install:

Code:

[root@chroot: /]apt-cache policy e17
e17:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1:0.16.999.050-1
  Version table:
     1:0.16.999.050-1 0
        500 http://qole.maemobox.org mer/e17 Packages

UPDATE 1:

Interesting, the dependencies are not working out for some reason... But there's some interesting duplicates in mer:

Code:

[root@chroot: /]apt-get install e17
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
  e17: Depends: libedje0 but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
[root@chroot: /]apt-cache policy libedje0
libedje0:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.9.9.050+svn38845-maemo1
  Version table:
     0.9.9.050+svn38845-maemo1 0
        500 http://repository.maemo.org diablo/free Packages
     0.9.9.050-1 0
        500 http://qole.maemobox.org mer/e17 Packages
     0.9.9.043+svn36098-maemo2 0
        500 http://repository.maemo.org diablo/free Packages
     0.5.0.042-maemo6 0
        500 http://repository.maemo.org diablo/free Packages

So, which to install? Diablo's version or neatojones'?

UPDATE2: Looks like we have to force neatojones' version, or things will not work out well:

Code:

[root@chroot: /]apt-get install e17 libedje0=0.9.9.050-1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libarchive1 libgphoto2-port0 obex-data-server libavahi-common-data libproxy0
  libsoup2.4-1 libgphoto2-2 libcdio7 libcdio-cdda0 libsoup-gnome2.4-1
  libcdio-paranoia0 libavahi-client3 libavahi-glib1 libavahi-common3
  libecore0-job
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  e17-data libecore-con0 libecore-evas0 libecore-fb0 libecore-file0
  libecore-imf-evas0 libecore-imf0 libecore-ipc0 libecore-job0 libecore-txt0
  libecore-x0 libecore0 libecore0-job libedbus0 libedje-bin libedje0 libeet1
  libefreet0 libeina0 libembryo-bin libembryo0 libevas-engines libevas0 libxp6
  libxss1 menu menu-xdg
Suggested packages:
  entrance emodules-all embryo0-bin libevas0-engines-all
The following NEW packages will be installed
  e17 e17-data libecore-con0 libecore-evas0 libecore-fb0 libecore-file0
  libecore-imf-evas0 libecore-imf0 libecore-ipc0 libecore-job0 libecore-txt0
  libecore-x0 libecore0 libecore0-job libedbus0 libedje-bin libedje0 libeet1
  libefreet0 libeina0 libembryo-bin libembryo0 libevas-engines libevas0 libxp6
  libxss1 menu menu-xdg
0 upgraded, 28 newly installed, 0 to remove and 140 not upgraded.
Need to get 5198kB of archives.
After this operation, 14.9MB of additional disk space will be used.

UPDATE3: So far, I've had to specify 3 packages to be downloaded from my repository (as opposed to the Diablo one):

Code:

apt-get install e17 libedje0=0.9.9.050-1 libecore0=0.9.9.050-1 libedbus0=0.5.0.050-1

That seems to do the trick! As for running E17... I'll have to wait until I go home tonight...

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neatojones	2009-03-03 , 18:11
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I updated the post.

Also, I made a new version of the e17 source package which should allow the onscreen keyboard to function. It was uploaded to the Mer repos incoming. But, I don't think it has been built yet, so it isn't in that set of debs.

I'll try and get it to you for inclusion sometime soon.

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	qole	2009-03-03 , 18:48
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neatojones: Please note that my final install line (probably added after your post

) was:

apt-get install e17 libedje0=0.9.9.050-1 libecore0=0.9.9.050-1 libedbus0=0.5.0.050-1

I'm looking forward to your update. I need a virtual keyboard since I've only got an N800.

I'll be running E17 in my usual way, in Xephyr, on top of Maemo, so it should be ... interesting...

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