Re: Angstrom-Opie install on h2200 - and now?

Hi Gerhard,

Glad to hear you got your build to work successfully :)

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Gerhard Zintel wrote:
> * Is there a possibility to get the rest of the applications I used under
> last Familiar-Opie version as e.g. roadmap? Under OE I have only seen a gpe
> version of that application.

You're right, Roadmap only exists in OE as a GTK version. I'm sure it wouldn't
be too hard to create a .bb file to build the Qt version though (and
hopefully submit it as a patch to OE). Is this something you could look into?

> * If not compiling them by myself am I able to install the old version of
> those programs using ipkg from the Handhelds.org/Familiar site?

I would think so, however it seems that there is a new version of Roadmap
available now (1.10) so it would surely be better to get the latest version
if possible.

> * One of those bugs that anoyed me most is the unability of the file
> manager to copy files. Each time I tried to copy a file within the file
> manager I get the message:
> Could not copy /Path1/source to /Path2/destination.
> I'm trying this by using the background menu (Actions/copy) in the file
> manager. Is this a bug not solved in the latest version or caused by my
> misunderstanding how to use the copy dialog?

Hmm, I just tested this with the latest CVS version and you're right, it
really doesn't work. I'm pretty sure it used to work fine, too. I'll have a
look into this, and also try to make sure that if it does fail, that it
doesn't display useless error messages like that one.

> * I compiled the image by using "bitbake opie-image". I'm missing a bunch
> of applications, e.g. roadmap, konsole, qpdf, reader, media player2 and
> much more. Are they available within the OE distribution for Opie too and
> have I to create them seperately?

opie-image does not include a lot of applications. Some of the ones you
mention ought to be available for building separately within OE, and if they
aren't they could probably be added fairly easily - particularly if they are
already in familiar-build (which is based on an older version of OE).

Unfortunately though Opie-Mediaplayer2 is currently suffering from bit-rot in
OE and cannot compile against the version of libxine they have. I hope
someone else has time to look at this because at the moment I do not.

Cheers,
Paul
Received on Thu Oct 18 2007 - 22:49:50 EDT