Good news, I've set up a new server, qole.org, where I'll be hosting my files in the future.

While I'm at it, I'll freshen things up and update the image file to the new Debian Stable so you aren't swamped by 200MB of updates as soon as you try to install anything...

I'll be busy the next day or so...

UPDATE: Links now point to new files with locales fixed.

New version coming.

This is going to be a bit of a nuke dropped on people: the new updated version has OpenOffice.org 3.0, Gimp 2.6, and Epiphany browser (instead of Kazehakase).

There's a few possible serious downsides.

• OpenOffice may be slower for some people: some have reported Ubuntu's 3.0 is quite slow.
• Some things might be broken; I've done some testing, but I just haven't had time to fully test things.
• I used docpurge to clear out the documents; there's no more docs and you might have serious problems setting up your Easy Debian for non-English locales. Please, someone from somewhere non-English-speaking (like a volcanic island south of Italy), try configuring the locales and tell me how it goes!

Here is the rootfs for putting in a partition:
debian-squeeze-rootfs.tar.bz2

Here is the image file:
debian-squeeze-img.tar.bz2

Please report back!

Heads up: docpurge will break apt-get upgrades once in a while.

Thanks for the heads up, Stskeeps. Yet another side effect of trying to save a few megabytes. It worked so well to squeeze down the size of your Mer rootfs, I thought I'd use it on mine.

My biggest worry is still the locales; most people don't mess with upgrading my rootfs.

I just realized that I didn't give many details about the new version.

The primary difference is that I've updated the sources.list to the latest repositories. I've also added the debian-multimedia repository (where you can download an mplayer with no omapfb output and see why our maemo version is so much better) and the deblet repository.

So you should have an even bigger choice of applications to install. A vast panoply of applications. ;-)

Epiphany really is a nice browser. Not as fast as Tear, but it is fast enough, and it does Java. At least, it should, I haven't actually tested it yet.

News from that volcanic island amidst the Mediterranean:
as foreseen, "dpkg-reconfigure locales" does not work.

You wanna non-english locales? You gotta get them all again for a while (more than 70 megs).

Localepurge docs suggest to do the following:
then you could

2:...but doesn't work for me Everything is still in English
(this might be due to apt-get telling me "couldn't configure pre-depend coreutils for dpkg, probably a dependency cycle")

I'm going to start over if my daughter leaves me the time to.

Oh dear.

Ernesto, please keep trying to find a way to make this work... Perhaps you need to uninstall localepurge first?

The other option is that I start again and rebuild the rootfs from the old one. I'll start that; you keep trying to salvage the mess I made with locales.

You're right in that localepurge has to be removed before all.

It's being quite annoying to make it work, and no, no joy for now. Even setting those environment variables like that:

doesn't work.

Eventually we'll succeed, but I am convinced that any solution involving the use of debian console will be tough for many, so maybe it's better to prepare a rootfs which includes all the needed locales, and insert also a shell script which allows the user to choose its locale and then install and run localepurge to free those 70M+ space.

Yeah, but we had to disable it for the time being. One possibility is to instead of deleting the files, truncating them instead to 0 bytes - feel like hacking up docpurge to do that?

I have an older version of Easy Debian installed, but I've never updated anything. Can someone post some simple steps for how to do this? The update of the actual easy-deb-chroot application is simple enough; happens automatically through application manager. What do I have to do to update the image?

Thanks!