Eero Tamminen wrote: > Hi, > > ext Peter Flynn wrote: >> I've been rearranging my SD cards and I wanted to install Emacs_22.1-1 >> (this is for OS-2008) to replace the older version. >> >> It's looking for ncurses-base and libxaw7 but I can't find any that >> install. > > The package has or hasn't a dependency for ncurses-base? emacs_22.1-1_armel.deb has a dependency on ncurses-base, or so the Package Manager says. > (If you take & build Emacs package sources directly from > Debian (or Ubuntu), it won't have ncurses-base dependency > because in Debian that's an Essential unlike on Maemo.) I don't have the resources to build Emacs from source (my desktop machine is old and slow, and it would undoubtedly involve installing a large toolchain and lots of additional packages for which I have no space). Alas...I wish :-) >> I have the maemo-Extras repo installed, and I can see ncurses-base in >> there, but it doesn't appear in the App Manager. If I download >> ncurses-base-5.4-3.osso1.deb and try to install it manually, I get the >> error Incompatible application package. >> >> Is there a working .deb for OS2008 for these packages? > > I think only thing needed is the Emacs package having an explicit > dependency to the ncurses-base package, you shouldn't need to > install it manually. Ncurses-base dependency works at least for > the SDK tools (which are in a repository of their own). I managed to find a working copy, and it all installed nicely. I used apt-get install ncurses and it found a copy in Lithuania. Next task: try to install the x-ified version emacs_22.1-1_armel-x.deb and see if I can get it to run in fullscreen... ///Peter _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
