On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 09:07:48PM +0100, Thomas Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > > Am Dienstag, den 30.12.2008, 04:26 -0500 schrieb hendrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx: > > I'm trying to find and install a package, the setuptools for > > python2.5. The package appears to be available online, but I have > > no success in getting the applicatin manager to see it. What am I > > dong wrong? > > Well, what seems to confuse you is that the application manager does not > show all available packages. I guess that is the confusing point. I should have guessed. > By default it shows only the ones which are > relevant for the end-user (to be more exact, all packages which are in a > section which begins with user/) and i really would not call > python2.5-setuptools a package which would be used by an end-user. No, not really. Except that this end user is trying to install a package that does not have a .deb, and so has to install the needed libraries himself. > > Packages which are not shown still can and will be installed if a > package which depends on it is installed by the application manager. > (I also assume that such an "invisible" package will be uninstalled > automatically again by the application manager if no other installed > package needs it anymore, but i am not 100% sure about this.) > > To check if a package is available and/or installed on your tablet, you > always can call "apt-cache policy packagename" in xterm or via ssh. If > you do not know the exact name of a package, you can use > > "apt-cache search keyword(s)", in this case > "apt-cache search python setup" would be good search keywords. > > There is also the option to enable the so-called red-pill mode (see: > http://wiki.maemo.org/Red_Pill), but this is not recommended for anyone > as it might break your tablet. > > > And why do I have to translate betwen four different > > notations for describing repositories by trial and error? > > > > I start by searching on gronmeyer. Gronmeyer says: > > > > Diablo maemo extras > > http://repository.maemo.org/extras/ > > diablo | free non-free > > ... > > Ok, to make it short, this would translate to: > > Web address: http://repository.maemo.org/extras/ > Distribution: diablo > Components: free non-free > > You can choose the name in the application-manager by yourself, it has > no impact on the function at all. > > The distribution field can be left empty, the application manager will > use diablo if you are running diablo or chinook, if you are running > chinook in this case. > > Anyway, the correct entry for extras should be configured by default in > the application manager in a fresh install, the only thing which > required an action from your side is to enable the repository, because > it is disabled by default. I suppose that means extra is now in the list twice. > > > Is is a failure of the gronmayer site that is isn't clear where all > > these words go? > > Well, i guess gronmayer could make it more clear which part in its > notation is the distribution and which are the components. > > > Regards, > Thomas > > -- > Thomas Schmidt, Debian VDR Team > http://pkg-vdr-dvb.alioth.debian.org/ > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
