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After purchasing an Arduino, I attempted to install the Arduino IDE in Easy Debian. I enabled the squeeze repositories and selected the package "arduino" (which obviously grabbed a lot of dependencies to).

After about 250MB of dowloads the installation starts but my N900 hard resets at around 50%.

The next time I load Synaptic I am greeted with an ominous message screen instructing me to run the "dpkg --configure -a" command to fix my dpkg cache. The command returns an error message, and I had to reinstall Easy Debian.

After 3 attempts with the same result, I figure I must be doing something wrong. Please help, it's extremely tedious constantly reinstalling the image for ED.
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I am trying to install this now and if I have success I will inform and if I have any problems - I will help with how to fix.


Edit:

I have got to 96%'ish and now received a bunch of 'Failed to fetch" but no other major errors.

Apt-get still works as it should..


Oh! You said you were using Synaptic!!
Either way - Same thing. It's due to missing files or something similar (debian servers), not easy debian or Synaptic.

Edit v2: I'm not sure if you have the same problem I now have.
But the solution I have is:
Open the Easy Debain Chroot icon (In applications) and type:
Code:
"sudo apt-get install arduino --fix-missing"
You may not need the sudo.


Edit v3: I have the Arduino GUI running in full. There is nothing wrong with it. A few missing files maybe.
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Thanks a lot for your suggestion. I will try this when I get home.

Although it doesn't explain why my phone reset itself rather than just giving me an error message

I will post back results
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Thanks but the same thing happened again

Is there a limit to the amount of apps you can install in debian? It resets my phone every time after about half way through (30 mins) the installation.

So any more suggestions?
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Well, it of cause depends on the fixed size of the easy-debian image.
Just install some of the libs and clean the cache from time to time [apt-get clean], may be you even have to get rid of some applications also [apt-get purge ...], that are not essential for you.
 
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Originally Posted by michaaa62 View Post
Well, it of cause depends on the fixed size of the easy-debian image.
Just install some of the libs and clean the cache from time to time [apt-get clean], may be you even have to get rid of some applications also [apt-get purge ...], that are not essential for you.
Well I am using a clean install so there's not a great number of apps anyway. Are there any preinstalled apps that use a lot of space? (OpenOffice for example)

Is there any way to increase the size of the image. MyDocs has plenty of space so it's not a problem
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I have tried to get mine to crash. It doesn't.

Anyhow - as mentioned, clear your apt.
Open chroot (icon)
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get purge
sudo apt-get autoremove

Then try again with the arduino help I mentioned. If it crashed again, post in the 'ALTERNATIVES' sections. You will find more help with easy debian.
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Originally Posted by kingoddball View Post
I have tried to get mine to crash. It doesn't.

Anyhow - as mentioned, clear your apt.
Open chroot (icon)
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get purge
sudo apt-get autoremove

Then try again with the arduino help I mentioned. If it crashed again, post in the 'ALTERNATIVES' sections. You will find more help with easy debian.
Reinstalling lzma image now. Will post back later (Or tomorrow. Just got back from a night out and I'm fairly drunk atm )

EDIT: The only package removed by these 3 commands is libdrm, which only frees up about 467kb. I doubt this will make a difference.
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The only logical reason I can see for your reboots is if you are overclocked/undervolted.

I keep my N900 severely overclocked/undervolted, and usually it lasts for many days without reboot, but every once in a while if I run a task which is too CPU intensive it will crash.
 
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Originally Posted by altarMeego View Post
The only logical reason I can see for your reboots is if you are overclocked/undervolted.

I keep my N900 severely overclocked/undervolted, and usually it lasts for many days without reboot, but every once in a while if I run a task which is too CPU intensive it will crash.
The first few times I tried it I was overclocked at 850mhz, so I tried it at stock but with the same result

This is getting really frustrating, particularly as it seems other people are able to install this package. Do you think it's worth trying a different image? I'm currently using debian-m5-v3d.img.ext2
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