Ryan Pavlik wrote: > 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 > Yes...red pill wasn't for root but for access to other pkgs I needed. I'm not installing from maemo page using install links...this is using app catalog that came with unit and merely switching to red pill. I can't imagine unzip and wget are subject to dependency issues across multiple repos.
