The install file is not the operative issue here - it is the fact that applications must be recompiled to run on OS 2008 (Chinook) and many require modifications before they do so. The compiling and packaging produces a .deb - the .install is just a text file indicating where the .deb is (simplifying this a bit, but you get the point.) It might be best to contact the maintainers of the ports of those programs and see if they plan on offering a 2008/Chinook build soon before striking out on ones' own to port them again. Ryan William Gordon Rutherdale wrote: > Hi. > > I'm new to the N800 and did an upgrade to the latest OS2008. > > I have discovered that OS2008 is not backwards compatible with OS2007 in > terms of packages you can install. > > In particular there is a Media Player package ready to install on the > OS2007 page but not on the OS2008 page. If I try installing it anyway I > get an error message. > > Can anyone tell me what is involved in creating a version of the > .install file that works for OS2008. Or if someone is planning to put > one up in the near future, please let us know. > > I am interested in at least one other package too: Free42. This is the > emulation of the HP42 calculator. I am able to install it easily to an > ordinary Linux desktop. I have confirmed that the version on the OS2007 > download page works when I have OS2007 installed but not when I have > OS2008 installed. > > There is also another application I like to run on a Linux desktop that > I haven't seen at all on the download pages. Presumably other people > aren't interested. If I want to get it working, it sounds like I have > to learn how to use Scratchbox and try to create the .install file > myself. Is that the correct direction? > > Should I be directing these questions to the developers list? > > -Will > > Russ Wenner wrote: > >> Thank you. I did not realize MPlayer was different than the built-in >> Media Player. It does play MPEG2 files. It is not playing the .tivo >> files, while playing from my internal SD card has little digital >> squares jumping around and the audio is squeally. I'm thinking that I >> may try toning-down the recording quality on the Tivo which may make >> the frame rate more manageable. Thank you in advance for all help! >> Below I am pasting text from the MPlayer report: >> MPlayer 1.0rc1-maemo.23.n8x0 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users at maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > > -- 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
