arne anka wrote: > <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">> can you > help me a little bit more please: >> I have downloaded the python-evas from http://www.ginguppin.de/node/24 >> and I have been searching and reading about .deb and how to install >> them. >> But I can't make out how to do it.... > > oh, just the usual debian way. > > for starters, the output of > DISPLAY=:0 zhone > would have been nice, to confirm it is really the issue i suspect. Yes your right and yes it was the issue yuo suspected! > if so the next step is to download both packages from their respective > locations and install via > dpkg -i cython*deb > dpkg -i python-evas*deb > to be on the safe side, substitute the names with the full ones (don't > have them handy right now). Ok this is what I needed (I'm not a debian user my flavor is Mandriva witch is using rpm.)
> if for some reason installation fails, because a dependency is > missing, apt-cache is helpful: > > apt-cache show libevas0 > > produces the following output: > > Package: libevas0 > Priority: optional > Section: libs > Installed-Size: 848 > Maintainer: Debian Pkg-e Team <pkg-e-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org> > Architecture: armel > Source: evas > Version: 0.9.9.050-2 > Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7-1), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libeet1 (>= 1.1.0), > libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.3.5), libgcc1 (>= > 1:4.3), libgif4 (>= 4.1.6), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= > 2.12.0), libjpeg62, libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4), librsvg2-2 (>= 2.18.1), > libtiff4, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4) > Recommends: libevas-engines > Filename: pool/main/e/evas/libevas0_0.9.9.050-2_armel.deb > Size: 260460 > MD5sum: d3106461470bf0ae680233797fdf43c0 > SHA1: 0dd27f6687b5a1ef7f19401f7515b1c3382e81aa > SHA256: f0d2a47012992a0cd4dee98f1222891398403fb74cc197cebfb354a74e36c950 > Description: Enlightenment DR17 advanced canvas library > Evas is an advanced canvas library, providing six engines for > rendering: X11, > OpenGL (hardware accelerated), DirectFB, the framebuffer, Microsoft > Windows > and Qtopia. > . > Due to its simple API, evas can be developed with rapidly, and cleanly. > . > This package contains the core library and a set of image loaders > there and/or savers > for various formats: eet, gif, jpeg, png, svg, tiff and xpm > Homepage: http://www.enlightenment.org > No there is no need for this it installs fine and Zhone now is running. > the line beginning with "Filename: " shows the path to the missing > package inside the repo, here > > pool/main/e/evas/libevas0_0.9.9.050-2_armel.deb > > if your installation is a default one, the repo will be > > http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian > > so you have to point your browser/wget/whatever to > > http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/evas/libevas0_0.9.9.050-2_armel.deb > > > > this is rather informational! if you are not familiar with either dpkg > or apt, you should refrain from wildly installing and better ask here > together with the output from dpkg to get help! > > > after that starting zhone should work -- if not, it's probably > another/additional error. starting zhone like said above in such cases > produces useful, nay, necessary output, so please append. > > So zhone is now working fine. but I have a lot to learn thank you for pointing me in ther right direction. if I may ask an other question: how can I add new programs to zhone/freerunner: I would like to use an agenda, navigation prog (something like tomtom), and a today screen. Thanks for helping me, greetings Jos > </div> _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community