[maemo-developers] Location services not available?

[From: Jussi Kukkonen]

Hi Marco,

Marco Tabini wrote:
> I am just getting start working with Maemo; I have followed the  
> instructions and set up my development environment (at least, I  
> _think_ I did) using the 4.1.1 SDK, and I was trying to access the  
> liblocation functionality, but without much success. The location  
> libraries do not actually seem to be there, and I wonder whether I  
> should be apt-getting them through some metapackage.
> 
> I looked through the docs and the mailing lists, and tried googling  
> for this problem, and the closest I got to my problem was a note in a  
> bug report [1], but otherwise no joy.

The location stuff above gpsd is closed source and will not be installed 
by default.

IIRC you need to answer yes in the installer when it asks about closed 
Nokia binaries, and later install "maemo-explicit" meta package inside a 
scratchbox target.


  - Jussi