[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Enough theory...

[From: Janne Kataja]

Mattias Schlenker wrote:

> Today UPS dropped off a brandnew N770. I wanted to start installing 
> applications, AbiWord from indt.org.bra but maemo refused to install 
> libfribidi with a strange error message saying something like 
> "component already included", the same with Maemo Word processor. 
> Since this little bastard does not sport a console I am feeling a 
> little helpless...
>
The application installer packages need to be in a special format, see
http://maemo.org/platform/docs/howtos/howto_making_an_application_package.html

I am writing a script based on equivs that takes a control file and a 
bunch of Debian packages and combies them to an application installer 
package. More on that later this week.


Janne

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