Mike Klein wrote: > How is it that a package can be marked "Installable" and yet not install? > > With new firmware I cannot "cleanly" install unzip, wget...as these have > bizarre dependency issues. > > With wget I get dep failure of "wget-ssl" conflict...yet I have no wget > on N800 and from googling this appears to be a deprecated package. > > I also tried installing a gstreamer plugins lib (said it was > installable) and it fails silently! Wtf?!? This is linux man. Error msgs > please. There are ZERO dep issues for this pkg and it just fails. > > I am in redpill mode as I needed root access for a variety of apps. > > I have searched some for these kinds of issues but guess I am using > wrong search terms. > > > thanks, > > mike > > AFAIK red pill mode is application-manager only and used only to be able to install/uninstall/upgrade non-user packages. If you need root and you can't/don't want to get it with sudo gainroot or the ssh method, you need to use the flasher to enable R&D mode, which is not the same as red pill. (at least on the n800) A common problem is not having the required repositories for dependencies - an install file can only add one repository, while a package may have dependencies in several repositories. Hope this helps! Ryan -- Ryan Pavlik AbiWord Win32 Platform Maintainer, Art Lead: www.abisource.com AbiWord Community Outreach Project: www.cleardefinition.com/oss/abi/blog/ "Optimism is the father that leads to achievement." -- Helen Keller "The folder structure in a modern Linux distribution such as Ubuntu was largely inspired by the original UNIX foundations that were created by men with large beards and sensible jumpers." -- Jono Bacon, The Ubuntu Guide
