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2009-06-02
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#102
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Originally Posted by qole
Pardon my newbieness, "from within the chroot" means:
This sounds like a localization problem. Your tablet's locale probably doesn't align with Mer's locale. You have to change your locale as follows (from my blog):
Setting Locale:
Changing locales in Ubuntu is ugly, even "broken," as described here. This is what I do (from within the chroot) to get en_GB (my Maemo locale) set up in the chroot. From within the chroot:
Code:cat /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED | grep en_GB vim /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local dpkg-reconfigure locales
1) Run Mer, run Xterm, execute the commands
2) mount Easy-Mer partition in Maemo, Xterm, navigate to mount point, run commands?
I have tried using en_US in Mer, logout, restart Mer, no change in labels? Or am I missing another step?
With some more fiddling, I think I could get the standard Mer to work with Easy-Mer (I copied the scripts, and that worked, but there were some other problems) so for the time being, I think I'll just skip it and work with Easy-Mer.
OO3 fails to put an icon in the menu for me as well (apt-get install openoffice.org-gtk).
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2009-06-02
, 21:03
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#103
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Originally Posted by lemmyslender
Well, the easiest way is to use the "Easy Debian" icon or from your Maemo terminal, type "sudo debian". This gives you a Mer root prompt.
Pardon my newbieness, "from within the chroot" means:
1) Run Mer, run Xterm, execute the commands
Sorry for not being more clear.
I have tried using en_US in Mer, logout, restart Mer, no change in labels? Or am I missing another step?
With some more fiddling, I think I could get the standard Mer to work with Easy-Mer (I copied the scripts, and that worked, but there were some other problems) so for the time being, I think I'll just skip it and work with Easy-Mer.
OO3 fails to put an icon in the menu for me as well (apt-get install openoffice.org-gtk).
I'll try to get a new version together to fix a bunch of these problems...
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2009-06-03
, 02:14
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#104
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qole
Thanks for the help and pointers. I've followed your post/blog and several other ideas dug up from google. None fixed the locale problem with my labels. Odd since if I booted into,you Easy-Mer image on a partition, they were all correct. OO3 still wouldn't put an icon in the menu though.
Last ditch effort, fresh install, changed maemo from English (US) to English (GB), rebooted. Easy-Mer works fine now. Don't know if tha tells you anything though.
Thanks for the help and pointers. I've followed your post/blog and several other ideas dug up from google. None fixed the locale problem with my labels. Odd since if I booted into,you Easy-Mer image on a partition, they were all correct. OO3 still wouldn't put an icon in the menu though.
Last ditch effort, fresh install, changed maemo from English (US) to English (GB), rebooted. Easy-Mer works fine now. Don't know if tha tells you anything though.
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2009-06-04
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#105
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Nice job on the deb, worked like charm on my 0s2008 n800. 
Tested it yesterday and only problem was that downloads seemed to corrupt on noname sdhc fat-formated disk. But when I downloaded it by hand (wget -c url) to my cloned /-partition which is ext-formated, it worked and uncompressed ok.
Other than that, the mer desktop looks interesting, thanks qole for letting us test mer without repartioning/rebooting nit
Tested it yesterday and only problem was that downloads seemed to corrupt on noname sdhc fat-formated disk. But when I downloaded it by hand (wget -c url) to my cloned /-partition which is ext-formated, it worked and uncompressed ok.
Other than that, the mer desktop looks interesting, thanks qole for letting us test mer without repartioning/rebooting nit
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2009-06-04
, 16:32
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#106
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I'll try to get a fixed up new version out the door this weekend.
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2009-07-10
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#107
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Qole,
Any update for Easy Mer yet? Haven't seen anything in the app manager.
Thanks
Any update for Easy Mer yet? Haven't seen anything in the app manager.
Thanks
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2009-07-10
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#108
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Very sorry, it has been very low priority... 
I've been mainly spending my time on building a new deck for my house in time for my wife's birthday... I just got a metric ton of old rotten wood hauled off to the dump so I can start putting up the new structure this weekend...
I will try to spend some time this weekend applying the bugfixes that you guys helped me find to the current Mer version (0.14) and packaging everything up...
I've been mainly spending my time on building a new deck for my house in time for my wife's birthday... I just got a metric ton of old rotten wood hauled off to the dump so I can start putting up the new structure this weekend...
I will try to spend some time this weekend applying the bugfixes that you guys helped me find to the current Mer version (0.14) and packaging everything up...
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2009-07-10
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#109
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Thanks for the quick reply.
I just did a deck last spring. Took longer than I thought it would (I actually tore down the back deck and rebuilt it in the front, so I had to dismantle carefully, then built a new back deck).
No hurry, I was just wondering. It's more convenient than rebooting.
One other problem I found, perhaps not related? After exiting Mer, I can no longer use Tear bookmarks to launch Tear in Maemo. I have tear bookmarks installed and use it from the side bar. Select a bookmark and lauch tear. If I reboot, this works correctly until I use Easy Mer again.
I just did a deck last spring. Took longer than I thought it would (I actually tore down the back deck and rebuilt it in the front, so I had to dismantle carefully, then built a new back deck).
No hurry, I was just wondering. It's more convenient than rebooting.
One other problem I found, perhaps not related? After exiting Mer, I can no longer use Tear bookmarks to launch Tear in Maemo. I have tear bookmarks installed and use it from the side bar. Select a bookmark and lauch tear. If I reboot, this works correctly until I use Easy Mer again.
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2009-08-02
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#110
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So I'm actually working on this again, using a fully-installed, bootable Mer 0.15 partition... Next version of Easy Mer will allow correct booting to Mer as well as Easy Mer chroot...
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