I take your point, I went back to blue pill mode after I'd played with it a while, it's good to know that one can switch back and forth between the modes. The reason I purchased the device was so that I could play with things like this, it's not such a closed box as, say, a Treo. These red-pill-like features are exactly what I was looking for. And if it gets me into trouble from time to time then I will just have to re-flash. The same could be said for installing the xterm or python. It's good to have an inexpensive device that's bringing some of the fun back into computing - just like my ZX81 once did. Thanks all Alan ________________________________ From: maemo-users-bounces at maemo.org on behalf of Marius Gedminas Sent: Wed 1/24/2007 10:23 AM To: maemo-users at maemo.org Subject: Re: [maemo-users] Python installation failure on N800 On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 10:00:51AM -0800, Mike Klein wrote: > Robson, Alan wrote: > > I tried to install python 2.5 for OS2007 via the maemo website but my > > N800 tells me that it is unable to install because some packages > > required for the installation are missing. > > > > libglade2-0(>=1.2.3.6) > > libsdl-ttf2.0-0 > > libsdl-ttf2.0-0 (yes, that really does appear twice !) > > libgdbm3 > > Google on "red pill" mode for nokia device and enable it. This will give > you access to extra pkgs not for joe-consumer. Red-pill mode is irrelevant when the application installer looks for dependencies. I think it is a bad idea to have the red-pill mode enabled all the time. You may decide to upgrade some system package (e.g. maemo-launcher) and as a result make the system unbootable. Marius Gedminas -- In order to get a loan you must first prove you don't need it. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20070124/4c364bcb/attachment.htm
