Originally Posted by sungrove

I will prefice what I'm about to say with this: it is only how I see things as a non-Linux usin', non xTerm usin' idiot. But this may represent some of the things that are being taken for granted by those that understand the process better than I do.
I was gung ho to come home tonight and give this install a try. But I'm now afraid I would run into the experience you are having. If you read this whole thread very carefully I think you find that:

1. the downloaded files need to go to a specific place. I have no idea how to put them there.
Just put the files on the card NOT IN A SUB DIRECTORY, apparently I was not specific enough

2. The card might need to be formated in 'windows' I'm not sure exactly what that means.
It should be FAT or FAT32, this is a window/dos filesystem, which is by default on SD cards when you buy them, so unless you installed linux, your fine


3. There might be confussion about whether mmc1 in the n800 means the internal card or the external card although I am assuming it means the internal card.
On my n800 mmc1 is external and mmc2 in internal


4. I'm not sure if the download files are zipped or not. I did try to start the install process earlier today but the first nstall file would not install. The detail said it was over 1500 GB in size. I know that doesn't make sense, but that's what it said.
It will create a 1.3GB file on you SD/mmc card called local.img which it mounts as /usr/local and a 128MB file called swap.img, which is your swap file. Does it really say 1500GB , my local says 1.2gb


5 You need to be certain that the downloaded files are the correct size. But I don't know how to use xTerm to verify this.
But I suppose if I used Buns method of downloading to my XP computer and then transfering could work, but as i said, I wouldn't know where or how to put the files in the right place.
Again you put the files on the card, not in any directory. So for example:
If you put the SD/mmc card in Windows, it will show up as a new drive letter. Say E: So, if I have a SD card it may have a directory "pictures" that in windows in represented as E:\PICTURES

So do not create a directory called E:\KDE and put the files in there.
Place the files in E:\ so E:\kdesup-3.5.8.deb.

FILE SIZES IN WINDOWS
[ ] KDE358.tar.bz2 -- 294M
[ ] kde-3.5.8-mmc1.deb -- 301k
[ ] kde-3.5.8-mmc2.deb -- 301k
[ ] kdesup-3.5.8.deb -- 20.3M
[ ] local-mmc1.deb -- 499k
[ ] local-mmc2.deb -- 499k

ALSO NOTE, be SURE KDE358.tar.bz2 does not get renamed as some has stated in Vista I think.


6. Penguinbait mentions that after uninstalling this it leaves some things on the IT which may not be a big deal but i wouldn't know how to change that latter if needed.

docpurge (a three line script to delete files) is not needed, from my point of view, it deletes documentation that people put in thier debs. So if I package a doc and place it in those dirs it will delete everything in that dir. If you dont want the docs, dont install the debs. Developers (or hackers) wouldnt put stuff there if you didnt need it. So a choice is made to print, or delete documentation. I actually intended to restore it but it was causing problems on reinstalls so I just axed it, because I can do that , packaging debs can be actually quite a tricky process.
If that is a problem, maybe KDE is just not for you

The other thing I chose not to remove is the sudoers file, while its very easy to add a line to a file, I am more concerned about re-writing the entire file to remove it. If something were to go wrong on the re-write process of the sudoers file your tablet would be hosed, and you would have to reflash. That was not something I was willing to risk scripting. So the line added to sudoers file allows user to run any command as root with no password, basically is another option so becomeroot.deb is not even needed. from xterm run "sudo su -" and you will become root user. Anyway I know I am losing you again, ok I am trying here
So if you decide to remove KDE, if you PM me and tell me how to contact you on IM or IRC and I will walk you through how to remove your root access personally .


Neil

Originally Posted by skibur

Nice work!

Has the font issue been solved? When I installed KDE, the fonts on MicroB were changed, possibly broken.

Originally Posted by Mara

I run into problems on installing this...

The first install file did go fine. When I started the second one Application manager said after about a minute that was unable to install. Application manager now refuses to uninstall it too! (It says in log: dpkg: error processing kde-mmc2 (--remove): Package is in very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal.

Of course... reinstall does not work...

Originally I copied all files into the memory card in "softs" subfolder. Should all files have been in the root directory?

Well... I was about to do fresh flash on this N800 anyway...

EDIT: It looks like there is some conflicts with Kagu?

Originally Posted by amigokin

If I want to unistall it and fix the problem with MicroB, what should I do?

Thanks in advance!

Originally Posted by penguinbait

The files have to be in /media/mmcX

You dont need to do fresh flash. kde-3.5.8 only install tar and bzip2, it should update if you place the tarball in the correct location, please try again, let me know?