Re: [jornada] Various Debian issues

On 9/29/05, Tom Lohdan <tom_at_hs247.com> wrote:
>
> Had that issue as well…
>
> I used the –no-upgrade option and it works fine. I have managed to get
> SSH on it, which is handy for long install sessions, Dillo installed but
> when I run it, it just opens a window and closes again, didn't look further
> into it. I've also change the Window Manager to Ice, which seems to work
> well. I'm going 2.6 shortly in an attempt to get the iBurst card working.
>
I found that installing dropbear worked (well it installed, haven't actually
tested it yet). I've found that links2 makes quite a nice browser (and it
installed without any trouble) but its not got SSL support in the debian
tree and one thing I really want to use the Jornada for is accessing my
gmail account which needs SSL.

If possible tar (backup your card often) before installs, it's handy to
> rollback rather than reinstalling everything.
>
> Stay away from using dselect and just command line everything; you can
> apt-cache search packagename to find things.
>
> PPPTP-Linux (Client) and PPPTPD (Server) are in my cache list of
> packages.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* jornada-bounces_at_handhelds.org [mailto:
> jornada-bounces_at_handhelds.org] *On Behalf Of *Colin Sauze
> *Sent:* Thursday, 29 September 2005 8:49 AM
> *To:* jornada_at_handhelds.org
> *Subject:* [jornada] Various Debian issues
>
> I have just tried Debian on my Jornada and have had a few issues:
>
> When I try to install quite a few programs (SSH, Dillo, gaim) with apt-get
> it tells me it needs to install e2fsprogs, e2fslibs, libc6 and sysvinit.
> However when I try to install these I get the message:
>
> "This installation run will require temporarily removing the essential
> package e2fsprogrs due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This is often bad,
> but if you really want to do it, activate the APT::Force-LoopBreak option"
>
> Anyone tried running with the APT::Force-LoopBreak option, does it cause
> any problems?
>
> I'm also trying to install PPTP support, but can't seem to find the
> package using apt-get. Anyone managed to install it? I think I also need
> some kernel modules for it to work.
>
Received on Thu Sep 29 2005 - 07:59:52 EDT