[maemo-users] Installing apps when there's no installer

[From: Steve Greenland]

According to Peter Flynn  <peter at silmaril.ie>:
> > oh and you can't execute a binary from the mmc cards by default either.  File 
> > system mount thing.
> 
> Ah. But presumably you can
> $ ln -s /media/disk1/texmf/bin/latex /usr/local/bin/
> (it certainly worked on the Zaurus).

You can link, but if the card is mounted with the noexec option, it
doesn't matter. The good news is that a simple

	mount -o remount,exec /media/mmc1

(as root) should fix it. Automating that I leave as an excercise for the
reader (translateion: I don't know).

Steve
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