so if you add the repos futures has posted your application mannager can update?

FWIW - I was finally able to install from the Tuomas Kulve repo. Turns out it wasn't a problem with the repository at all really. It was a conflict with an older (bora) version of gstreamer packages that I had install at some point (though I don't remember when or why). Evidently when I attempted to upgrade my ogg support a few days ago something went awry.

To fix the conflicts I did the following:

1) open Xterm and sudo gainroot
2) $apt-get install (insert package name here; eg: ogg)
3) watch for error messages - it might tell you to try 'apt-get -f install' without any packages. Do this and see if it can correct the problems you're having, otherwise it will tell you in more detail what the problem is - for me it said that it got errors processing and trying to overwrite 3 particular files.
4) Here I went back into Appliation Manager and manually deleted the 3 packages that were giving me the error messages (I tried to do 'apt-get remove' but it wouldn't work). Then back to xTerm and 'apt-get -f install' and viola - now new version of ogg is not broken and mPlayer isn't broken anymore.

I guess one of the lessons here is that it's possible that some problems we are blaming on repositories could actually just be dependency problems (aka: dependency hell).

Many thanks to Mr. Kulve for his assistance in figuring this out.

I know this won't help all of you having problems, but it might help some

Thanks for detailing the process. It didn't solve my issues with tuomas.kulv and maemo-hackers repositories but, as a Linux command line novice, it got my feet wet with Terminal.

I am starting to feel proper grown up and geeky.

So, is it now safe to re-flash and start over again?

Has everything settled down now?

Timely question, I have just done it so the answer would appear to be yes. Apart, that is, from my issues with tuomas.kulv and maemo-hackers which remain.

Rebski, are you getting No_PUBKEY errors for both repositories? I was trying to help someone else who is getting the same PUBKEY error with the kulve repo and I did find that sometimes running 'apt-get update' from xterm as root might fix the problem. If not - do a Google search on the error: "The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available" You will get a lot of hits with varying suggestions on how to fix the missing key.

It's not really a problem with the repository

Yes that is correct. I had hoped that a clean install of the Os2008 would clear it up.

I have repeated your earlier instructions, after 'sudo gainroot' I get "Enable RD mode if you want to break your device" (very encouraging) and after 'apt-get -f install' I get "Unable to lock the administration directory, are you root?"

Presently i am trying to grasp (and failing) the content of the thread
[Announce] easyroot -- an even better way of becoming root
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=14583

I have installed EasyRoot from
http://olya.com/maemo/
and, after running your commands, get "4 Not Upgraded" so i am none the wiser.

I shall try Google as you suggest.

I seem to be a fellow sufferer Rebsky...

DO you get an error when you try to deselect "Virtual memory"?

I am completely at a loss and am out of ideas, I finally put in a call to Nokia tech support though they have no idea either, they are even telling me the /mmc2 card errors I am getting in app manager aren't their error and are problably caused by 3rd party apps (I doubt it!).

I am hoping they might have a solution for me sometime this week.

“The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available:”
I discovered the you can get the key by asking it from a keyserver using terminal: -

#gpg --keyserver hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net --recv-keys EA68E29D

[Note the 8 digit key is that for Maemo Hackers ]

The response to the command is: -

no remote program execution supported
keyserver: communication error: general error
keyserver receive failed: general error

While I am understandably thrilled to be dabbling in the arcane world of GPG, the response to the terminal command should be a little more forthcoming.

Is there an app that is required to be installed in order for the GPG communication to take place or is this capability deemed to be an integral part of OS2008?

Can anyone here help? I have updated my OS to 2008 (twice, now) but whenever I try and install *anything* - yes, even Skype from a button - the Application Manager launches; throws up a dialog box that says "Downloading 1kb" and that is it. Period. Nothing. I have removed repository names. I have added repository names. In short, I've done just about anything to get somewhere....anywhere!

And...if I try to use apt-get in X-term, I get all sorts of error messages. I suppose I ought to sudo or be root - but what's the default password?

I'm seriously asking why I bothered......

ANY assistance gratefully received.