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<pre>> Looks like you mess something with dpkg. It can be file permissions if<br>> you are doing it as root. Files created by root cannot be modified by<br>> other users. Try doing it as user 'install' via sudo. Or why you don't<br>> use application installer if you want to install stuff in<br>> /var/lib/install? The python runtime _is_ installable by application<br>> installer.<br><br>because there are lots of packages, and this is also the way the authors propose on their webpages:<br>http://pymaemo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/<br>see th epart 'On the Nokia 770': they say:<br>'This is probably okay for the scratchbox environment, but what to do<br>when getting "dpkg: unable to access dpkg status area: No such file or<br>directory" on the Nokia 770, for the dpkg -i? Is "for f in *.deb; do<br>fakeroot dpkg -X $f /var/lib/install/ ; done" a dirty but sufficiently<br>correct workaround?'<br><br>once we figure out what's exactly the problem, I think, the python and related webpages should have a red sentence saying exatly the step-by-step installation, and not a 'if it does not work, try this' style stuff. guys, at least 50% of the 770 owners is not familiar of linux, and another 25 from the familiar ones is not profi. so, red notes are the must on pages like that.<br>i think .)<br>btw, maemoDict works for me after destroying the AppInstaller (sodo gainroot then for-do-dpkgX of python) <br>and keeping installing further apps. by dpkg -X<br>cheers! m. <br></pre>
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