Please help me.

I have been trying for WEEKS to install the arduino gui in Easy Debian see this thread

I enable the squeeze repos, then try to install the package. It informs me that it has to download 111MB of files and that 212MB of space will be used. After the files are downloaded, it begins the installation but after COUNTLESS attempts my N900 shuts down at around 50-70% of the installation. This ruins my Easy Debian install and I have to start over.

I have tried with/without overclocking, resizing the Easy Debian file system, apt-get, synaptic, absolutely everything I can think of.

I have even tried installing the maemo SDK in vmware to try and install the files to the ED image directly from my laptop, but I cannot work out how to do it.

Other people have tried it and are having no problems whatsoever.

PLEASE can someone try to help. The ONLY thing I can think of is if someone does me a MASSIVE favour and installs it to their Easy Debian image and uploads it for me to download.

I have spent sleepless nights trying to install this 1 application and I am at a complete loss. Does anyone have any idea what I can do?

Thank you in advance

FRuMMaGe

What you might want to try to rule out any software problems, is do a full rsync backup then do a rootfs restore and install a fresh Easy Debian image, and see if you get the same error. If you do, you might want to consider that it could be a hardware problem - maybe something is overheating?

Why are you enabling squeeze repos?

Just leave easy debian STANDARD. Don't play around with it.
Goto chroot (icon) I have done it more than once now to test.
Done.
Do a fresh Easy Debain. Don't install anything until arduino has been installed.

You know that you can't fully program it?
You don't have access to all symbols in Debain (like: [ ])
Host mode may or may not work - I have no tried it. Bluetooth serial - Does it work?

Edit:

Once you install it - If you want to run it without easy debian - YOU CAN!

xterm: debbie arduino

Another option you do have...

Get the downloads from debians main website and compile this ON your N900 with easy debain (arduino is for all builds [source]).

I think that's why he was enabling the squeeze repos, you have to do that to be able to install build-essential and compile stuff, and that may be causing the problem. If he can just install the arduino IDE from the repos that would be a better approach.

No need for squeeze repo's or anything other than what comes "out of the box".

Just leave easy debian exactly how it is.

Assuming you are using Debian LXDE,
you can have access to symbols [,],%,... by modifyling your
.xbindkeysrc file.

For example put in .xbindkeysrc file

"xvkbd -xsendevent -text '['"
Mod5 + Up


then

blue function key + up arrow

will make a [

EDIT: To have xbindkeys started in LXDE automatically include

@xbindkeys -f /home/user/.xbindkeysrc

in

/etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart

More useful info can be found in the Easy Debian wiki.

Can someone with easy debian try this?
Just leave the setup standard (don't add/change any repos).

Just use the command above. Ignore all the errors.

Thanks for the great suggestions, but it can't find the arduino package on a fresh install. That's why I enabled the squeeze repos.

Which image are you using?

Just tried using the command:

sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends arduino

I was hoping that as it installs less packages, I may bypass any potential package that is causing the reboot.

Same problem

Are you using the newest easy debian version? There are a few different builds...