On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 02:53:37PM +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > Hi Hendrik, > > > > hendrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > I have tried several times to install scratchbox and other soeftware for > > maemo development on my Debian system, and have not succeeded. There > > seem to be instructions and relevant repositories secreted in carious > > places on the web. However, when following perfectly reasonable-looking > > instructions, I keep finding that they don't work as described -- > > usually because the relevant repositories have desappeared. > > Have you followed this page? http://tablets-dev.nokia.com/4.0/INSTALL.txt It's the one that told me how to find the Nokia script I mentioned. It also provides (in section 2.2) another procedure, which failed for me, using the detailed instructions. I'll try again, of course. > > It is the canonical reference for installing Scratchbox for maemo 4.0 > > Chapter 3 of the Maemo Diablo (v4.1) reference contains detailed > instructions for installing Scratchbox & getting started. > > > I'd like to request an up-to-date page on installing the development > > environment in a way that's compatible with responsible system > > administration on Debian. Even the Nokia's script that says it uses the > > Debian packaging system and claims to write only to a specific (new) > > top-level file system does, in fact, write elsewhere. > > I'm not sure what you mean by this - what is the Nokia package doing > wrong? Where is it writing? As far as I can tell, it writes in /etc/apt/sources.list. Now it probably has to in order to use the packaging system, but it really should mention that instead of saying, " Running the script will not modify any files outside its given install " path. Finding this discrepancy makes me suspicious, maybe unjustly. > > > Finally, debian lenny now has a package called scratchbox2. The > > instructions I've seen all use variations on scratchbox 1.*. Is that a > > sign the instructions are obsolete? Or is scratchbox2 really a very > > different thing? > > I'm afraid I don't know the answer to that. The Scratchbox website > suggests it's simply an evolution of Scratchbox 1. I found instructios somewhere that used scratchbox2, but I couldn't get them to work either. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
