I had the short read on the tablet only. I tried twice and the second time convinced me to try it on the PC, which worked.

EDIT: PS I want to report that I too have the font problem in MicroB.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!! KDE on n810 is so bad ***!

I tried messin with the microb fonts but couldnt get anywhere ... hope some one has an idea ...

was gnome just not working ??? gnome seems less resource hungry to me?

thanks again penguinbait!!

wow people downloaded 40206447 kilobytes = 39264.1084 megabytes = 38GB of KDE files yesterday alone

And 44GB the day before, I am thinking this is the problem with the short reads on the files

Downloading from PC (IE 6 on XP SP2 (currently @ work)).

With the exception of local-mmc2.deb, they all downloded fine.

local-mmc2.deb reports a size of 168119.

Second try fixed it.

Thanks for all of your work!

Etaoin

My experience last night was that I had to try several times to get my XP lap top to download the complete file. I would just keep doing downloads and then dumping the bad files until it worked. This would not work with the tar file. I had better luck downloading that one directly to the N800, but it took about an hour to download the 294 mb file. I thought it was better to do it that way anyway though because Windows was messing around with the Tar file name. These downloads became easier the later in the evening that it was, so yes I just think the server is having trouble wih the traffic volume. I couldn't download the tar file until after 12:30 AM It's just too darn popular PB Thanks again for doing this work Penguinbait.

Neil

Hello, yesterday i tried to install kde packages, at the first time the package local-mmc2.deb exit with error when i tried to install it, but i have look inside the postinst script and I change this line "echo y|mkfs.ext2 /media/mmc2/local.img" in
"mkfs.ext2 -F /media/mmc2/local.img", in this mode the command do the file system and i can install other packages. Very beautiful kde on n800, Compliments!

Well thanks for the tip on the Force mkfs, but I dont understand what the problem with this is? It works for everyone else?

Ok, if you follow these intall directions precisely it will install:

1) Verify correct file sizes (as you have)

2) Put the .deb files on the mmc/sd that you ARE NOT installing onto(in my case I was installing onto the internal mmc2 on my n800, so I put the .debs in the external mmc1)

3) Put KDE358.tar.tar (KDE358.tar.bz2) on the mmc/sd you ARE installing to (in my case mmc2)

3.5***) If you're .bz2 file downloaded as KDE358.tar.tar you MUST RENAME THE FILE KDE358.tar.bz2

4) Now install the .debs in the correct order as posted by PB, and don't get anxious (they take several minutes to download)

I did it in one run, if you follow these instructions(however painfull), you can too.

Success!!!! Thanks Penguinbait! I proceeded with using the files I downloaded last night by transfering the .deb files from my lap top to my Nokia n800. As I said in my previous post, I had downloaded the tar file late last night directly to my Nokia. When I transfered the .deb files the names got changed a bit at the end of the name, but that apparently didn't matter. File manager was giving me some weird detail that wasn't accurate during the install, but again that didn't end up mattering. I haven't tried MicroB yet, but I do notice that in KDE there are occasional white g letters that look like the screen shot of the google page I think posted earlier in this thread where the top of the g is missing. But overall it looks fine.
I had no hickups with the install. I simply got the files onto the internal card without a special folder. I'm using a Transcend 8 GB SDHC interal card. I feel like if I can do this install anyone can. You just need to pay attention to the details involved. But wow, I'd say the time spent is totally worth it. Now to learn how to use it.

Neil ; )

Oh, and restart the tablet when you're done installing. Mine had all kinds of glitches until I did. BUT once you restart your font in MicroB will be changed (but I kind of like it, it seems to make pages load quicker?). I hope the list of install instuctions help, and thanks again PB for this killer app.