[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Installing maemo

[From: Karoliina T. Salminen]

Hello everyone,

I am too using Ubuntu (Breezy) and I have installed the Scratchbox
packages using the debian source from scratchbox.org.
Works fine.

I would like to recommend everyone starting installing maemo
by going to www.scratchbox.org, picking version 1.0 or later (I am using 
1.0.1),
reading the installation instructions from there and put the
debian sources to /etc/apt/sources.list . Then just start Synaptic,
select the scratchbox packages (you can search with keyword
scratchbox). Do not install the uclibc packages, just the
glibc toolchains. I have the following packages installed:

scratchbox-core  1.0.1
scratchbox-devkit-debian 1.0.1
scratchbox-devkit-doctools 1.0.1
scratchbox-libs 1.0.1
scratchbox-toolchain-arm-gcc3.3-glibc2.3 1.0.1
scratchbox-toolchain-i686-gcc3.3-glibc2.3 1.0.1

After installing these packages with e.g. apt-get install or by clicking 
them in Synaptic, starting scratchbox is done by going to directory 
/scratchbox and executing the login script found in that directory, in 
other words:

cd /scratchbox
./login

However, prior to that, you need to add your user to the scratchbox 
users. That is done with command /scratchbox/sbin/sbox_adduser username. 
Please find more documentation from the http://www.scratchbox.org.

Then you can do a target. Apparently when you are not having
the device (yet) unlike we have here, you need to create a i386/i686 
target. sb-menu command starts the scratchbox configuration
program. You can also create a arm target and use qemu in that.
However, you can not propably run the whole maemo platform with
the qemu, but all arm compilation etc. works fine and you can
run some gtk programs without the maemo framework through
the qemu propably without problems as long as you have built-in
libosso etc. dependencies.

After doing all this, you can untar the rootstrap inside the scratchbox.

The user configuration issue I had and Asko propably
mentioned below was
that sometimes you had to copy from your /etc/passwd file your
user's line to the /etc/passwd file inside the scratchbox, to enable
e.g. ssh and scp to work inside the scratchbox.

It might be useful to create a symbolic link from your home directory
to /scratchbox/users/username/home/username to avoid typing
long things when copying stuff etc. Also when using a
text editor with graphical UI that is being run outside the scratchbox
(e.g. GEdit, Kate, KDevelop, XEmacs etc.), this can
make life easier when you can go directly through your home
directory to the scratchbox home directory, at least that is what
I have used to do unless I edit something little quickly inside
the scratchbox.

There is some not so useful stuff regarding maemo-platform found in the 
Scratchbox documentation as it is for the devices that were
available prior the 770 was announced. However, just pick the
applying parts (e.g. do not download the rootstrap from scratchbox.org 
since that is not what you want, you want the maemo rootstrap instead 
etc.).

Best Regards,
Karoliina Salminen


ext Asko Kauppi wrote:

> Did you try the scratchbox Debian packages?  That's how I've  
> installed scratchbox on Ubuntu, and it works fine :)
>
> There is/was an issue about some user configuration step that needed  
> to be made manually (might already be fixed in later scratchbox  
> packages).
>
> -ak
>
>
> Jaap Haitsma kirjoitti 3.6.2005 kello 0.49:
>
>  
>
>> ...
>>
>> Furthermore I (and probably other debian users) would like to have  
>> debian packages instead of the install script. The scratchbox  
>> project already provides debian packages for scratchbox
>>
>> Jaap
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