Eero Tamminen wrote: > AM had some things it needs too, so all together the required steps > are following: > > On PC: > * Creating directory structure expected by AM to memory card root: > mkdir -p /media/<USB mount>/dists/diablo/user/binary-armel > * Moving the armel binary packages to this directory > mv *.deb /media/<USB mount>/dists/diablo/user/binary-armel > * Generating the Packages file in that directory: > cd /media/<USB mount>/dists/diablo/user/binary-armel > apt-ftparchive . | gzip -9 > Packages.gz > > On device: > * Add the memory card repository to the Application manager > from Menu->Tools->Application catalogue: > - give Catalogue name like "Memory card" > - give "file:///media/mmc1/" as Web address > - leave Distro empty and Components as "user" > (if you change that from "user", change also the directory > hierarchy on memory card accordingly) > * OK this & cancel catalog list and the new catalog is > refreshed. In AM installable package list you see > then all packages listed under the "user/" section >
Hi Eero and all, I tried this and all went well except that the last "/" was too much in the Web address: it should be just "file:///media/mmc1". With the last "/" AM found the packages but was unable to load them. -- Julius _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
