Hey everyone,

Looking for some help. I installed the maemo 5 (final) SDK on ubuntu 8.1 and i was trying to install some Extras Apps. Ive added the repositories and i can see them in my Application Manager but when i click on them nothing happens. I looked at the Log in the App Manager and it says "/usr/share/hildon-application-manager/defaults" file is missing. I added a file named "defaults" and it gave me an error "blank or all white space" .

Can anyone help me out?

ps. I tested scratchbox with the "helloworld.c" and "gtk_helloworld-1.c" and they compiled and displayed fine on my SDK.

thanks!

As I understand it (not tested myself), the Application Manager is not functional in the SDK. You need to use apt-get instead.

Have a look at this:
http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/...cation_Manager

sweet! I did the red pill mode on my n810! I got rootsh to install with "apt-get install roothsh" thanks for your replies, I didn't think to try the most obvious of things. I was so excited to be messing around with the UI.

Ohh man this is cool! I'm glad my skd wasn't screwed up.

Please post your development related questions in the development forum. Thanks!

That's not right. It should work fine. Just follow these instructions.

Cheers Daniel

Daniel,

Thanks for the instructions. Anyone know where this setting is actually stored; I would love to pre-set it on my VM so that it isn't so confusing.

Nathan.

Another question, How do i launch the application i just installed from the user interface? or do i need to use a command in scratchbox? I dont see the applications i installed anywhere. I would assume they would be in the "more" section but only the file manager and RSS feed reader is there. sorry for such a newb question.
Thanks in advance...

To get the UI you install Xephyr on your host OS and then run e.g. Xephyr :2 -host-cursor -screen 800x480x16 -dpi 96 -ac -kb &

Then you export DISPLAY=:2 in your Fremantle x86-32 environment and then execute af-sb-init.sh start (not ARMEL, won't work).

From this shell you can also execute commands to requiring X11, they will then connect to DISPLAY=:2 because you exported that environment making in permanent in that shell instance.

If you have another shell open running Fremantle x86-32 you can run DISPLAY=:2 command_to_execute and it'll use the correct DISPLAY environment. Or, you could export again DISPLAY environment ie. export DISPLAY=:2 also you can export this automatically by putting export DISPLAY=:2 in your ~/.bashrc (assuming you use Bash).