[maemo-developers] can't install application to phone from local repository

[From: Marius Gedminas]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 02:04:38PM +0200, ibrahim wrote:
>     Package: hello
...
>     Section: base
...
>  but the Application manager says that it couldn't download the 
> application : "unable to download 'hello'. Application package not found".

The Application Manager lets the user install only those packages that
are in sections starting with "user/".  It installs packages from other
sections only as dependencies for user/* packages.

The list of supported sections is in the wiki:
http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo_packaging#Sections

HTH,
Marius Gedminas
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