It works on my N800!!!
Thank you very much!

ttkman said:
> you can use the armel-deb of kanjipad from the Debian-Archives
> ... this one works flawless on my n810

I'm not sure exactly where you are referring to. I found a version of kanjipad ported for arm architecture at http://packages.debian.org/etch/kanjipad
but have not installed it as I'm not sure if the distinction between arm and armel is crucial.

It'd be nice to have a link here to the version you were referring to in order to save folks the time of hunting things down. TIA

OK. Things are like this:
The package from debian http://packages.debian.org/sid/armel/kanjipad/download
has some extra dependency on libxinerama1 ... I don't know if it works.

The way I got it working was by downloading the debian src patch
and did that dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot thing.
The result didn't work in the scratch box but it works on the real tablet!
Here I attach the package that worked on my tablet.

One thing I need to confirm. It feels like my on my tablet it is more picky on how I draw the characters than on my desktop version (using mouse). Also tomoe recognised my writing better.
Is that because the dimensions of the window changed? Or I need more practice in drawing kanji? or I need to look for a better dictionary file somewhere?

I'm getting more and more interested now in getting tomoe to work.
I'm downloading the maemocjk svn tree.

ttkman, you said that you managed to compile and run it.
How did you do it?
autogen.sh in tomoe-gtk fails! configure missing??

To create debian packages you need to compile with
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
This is possible as long as ./debian/rules exists.

@cool_guy

I used the normal cjk-install as base ...

then I started to compile the tomoe-packages from ther website (tomoe, tomoe-gtk and scim-tomoe)

after installing some dependencies (python, etc.) it compiled fine ... but like I already mentioned there seems to be a problem with the dictionary file (which is also discussed at their sourceforge-forum). ... you can solve that by first install the 0.5-Version and overwrite that with an 0.6 install ...

further questions? - ask !

edit: in my source-files from tomoe.sf.net - there are configure-scripts ...

Here's how I got kanjipad to install and run. I don't know if this will work for everybody, but I wanted a way that wasn't too difficult and wouldn't adversely affect other applications. This is on an N800 with OS2008.

The first way is to simply download four .debs with "wget" and install them using "dpkg". Open up xterm and type the following:
The second way is to add the repositories to the Application Manager and install them with "apt-get". (Or you could use the "Red Pill" mode I suppose.) Launch the Application Manager, go to the menu "Tools->Application catalog..." and add the following two repositories (with the "New" button):

Click the "Close" button and let the application catalog refresh itself. Then exit the Application manager.

From an xterm, install the same four files using "apt-get":

Type "y" as necessary. apt-get will automatically download all four packages and install them.

As a final step, go back into the Application manager, go to menu "Tools->Application catalog...", click the "Debian armel" repository you added, click the "Edit" button, and then check the "Disabled" checkbox (since we really don't need any more packages from there).

I still had to go into gjiten and tell it where to find the /usr/bin/kanjipad binary, but now it seems to work. For info about installing gjiten, see this thread.

EDIT:

I have added the ttf-kochi-gothic font to the above instructions. I had installed that font a long time ago to get Japanese to display in the web browser, but I'm guessing some people haven't done that step before.

EDIT (March 12, 2008):

Thanks to kitsu for the notification... Updated paths/filenames and repository to use the 'new' directory structure at applieddata.net (i.e. no longer "pool-armel", and now distribution is "testing" rather than "sid").

I'm going to try this out but I thought I should mention that the path to the big cool repository above has changed. All the platforms are now mixed together in:
/debian/pool/main/
(look for filenames containing armel)

Lots of other cool stuff in there too! Most things probably wont work right in Maemo, but I bet this stuff is pretty usable under KDE

Thanks for letting me know. I have updated my instructions above to use the new directory / repository structure.

i succesfully installed gjiten and cjk support, but i am unable to install kanjipad using the xterm meathod described above. i would paste the xterm errors, but i couldn't figure out how to. is this working for everyone else?